Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Transliteration, Translation, Dates, and Dramatis Personae xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. From the Files of the Karakozov Case: The Virtual Birth of Terrorism 10
7. 2. The Real Rakhmetov: The Image of the Revolutionary after Karakozov 39
8. 3. “A Life for the Tsar”: Tsaricide in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 66
9. 4. Raskolnikov, Karakozov, and the Etiology of a “New Word” 85
10. 5. Armiak; or “So Many Things in an Overcoat!” 104
11. 6. “Factual Propaganda,” an Autopsy; or, the Morbid Origins of April 4, 1866 128
12. 7. The Head of the Tsaricide 150
13. Conclusion: The Point of April 4, 1866 174
14. Appendixes 181
15. List of Abbreviations 193
16. Notes 195
17. Bibliography 219
18. Index 227