HIST 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cheese Shop Sketch, Winter Palace, Vera Zasulich
Document Summary
Russian ideologically and practically contributed to terrorism in world, how get to revolution to 1917. Terrorism phenomenon, when talking about ideologically split that happened in russia after great reforms of 1860, position of terrorism revealed side of spectrum in terms of reformer vs. reactionary. Develops out of literature and ideas of last class, terrorists extremely well read. Forumlated ideas in action and series of dialogues with predeccesors, lecture argue that utopia and terrorism go hand in hand. Get from wonderful utopian world, everyone was happy and productive glass and steel style building, to violence of today. Dating turning point to 1878 1878 that feeling of disillusionment that pervaded the russian revolution movement, sense that activism in russian revolutionaries going no where and terrorist violence was only way to engage in true revolutionary spirit. Scholars go further back to 1860s, to two early movements that provide inspiration, genesis of revolutionary terrorism in russia.
