Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Translation and Transliteration xi
5. Introduction: Approaching Russian Madness 3
6. PART ONE. Madness, the State, and Society
7. 1. A Cheerful Empress and Her Gloomy Critics: Catherine the Great and the Eighteenth-Century Melancholy Controversy 25
8. 2. The Osvidetel’stvovanie and Ispytanie of Insanity: Psychiatry in Tsarist Russia 46
9. 3. Madness as an Act of Defence of Personality in Dostoevsky’s The Double 59
10. 4. Vsevolod Garshin, the Russian Intelligentsia, and Fan Hysteria 75
11. 5. On Hostile Ground: Madness and Madhouse in Joseph Brodsky’s ‘Gorbunov and Gorchakov’ 90
12. PART TWO. Madness, War, and Revolution
13. 6. The Concept of Revolutionary Insanity in Russian History 105
14. 7. The Politics of Etiology: Shell Shock in the Russian Army, 1914–1918 117
15. 8. Lives Out of Balance: The ‘Possible World’ of Soviet Suicide during the 1920s 130
16. 9. Early Soviet Forensic Psychiatric Approaches to Sex Crime, 1917–1934 150
17. PART THREE. Madness and Creativity
18. 10. Writing about Madness: Russian Attitudes toward Psyche and Psychiatry, 1887–1907 173
19. 11. ‘Let Them Go Crazy’: Madness in the Works of Chekhov 192
20. 12. The Genetics of Genius: V.P. Efroimson and the Biosocial Mechanisms of Heightened Intellectual Activity 208
21. 13. Madwomen without Attics: The Crazy Creatrix and the Procreative Iurodivaia 226
22. 14. A ‘New Russian’ Madness? Fedor Mikhailov’s Novel Idiot and Roman Kachanov’s Film Daun Khaus 242
23. 15. Methods of Madness and Madness as a Method 263
24. Afterword 283
25. Bibliography 301
26. Contributors 329