CHAPTER 3. Dostoevsky’s Messianic Irrationalism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Prologue 1
6. CHAPTER 1. Organizing Revolution: The Russian Terrorists 7
7. CHAPTER 2. Kropotkin’s Anti-Darwinian Anarchism 38
8. CHAPTER 3. Dostoevsky’s Messianic Irrationalism 58
9. CHAPTER 4. Tolstoy and the Nonviolent Imperative 102
10. CHAPTER 5. Destroying the Agents of Modernity: Russian Anti-Semitism 140
11. CHAPTER 6. Conveying Higher Truth Onstage: Ballet and Theater 176
12. CHAPTER 7. Abstract Art and the Regeneration of Mankind 228
13. CHAPTER 8. The Dream of Communism 275
14. CHAPTER 9. Communism and the New Forms of Dictatorship 299
15. Epilogue 333
16. Notes 337
17. Index 381