Historical models of terror in Decembrist literature / Ludmilla A. Trigos -- All of a sudden : Dostoevsky's demonologies of terror / Val Vinokur -- Fool or saint? Writers reading the Zasulich case / Donna Oliver -- The terrorist as novelist : Sergei Stepniak-Kravchinsky / Peter Scotto -- The Spiridonova case, 1906 : terror, myth, and martyrdom / Sally A. Boniece -- The Byronic terrorist : Boris Savinkov's literary self-mythologization / Lynn Ellen Patyk -- Andrei Bely's Petersburg and the dynamics of political response / Timothy Langen -- Exile's vengeance : Trotsky and the morality of terrorism / Martin A. Miller -- The afterlife of terrorists : commemorating the people's will in early Soviet Russia / James Frank Goodwin -- "Everyone here was carrying out orders" : songs of war and terror in Chechnya / Anna Brodsky -- Narrating terror : the face and place of violence in Valery Todorovsky's My stepbrother -- Frankenstein / Brian James Baer -- Stage(d) terrorism / Birgit Beumers -- Russia's 9/11 : performativity and discursive instability in television coverage of the Beslan atrocity / Stephen Hutchings -- Afterword : Russia, a revolutionary life / Nina L. Khrushcheva.