Editors Angela Brintlinger and Ilya Vinitsky have brought together essays that cover over 250 years and address a wide variety of ideas related to madness
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 10
- Note on Translation and Transliteration 12
- Introduction: Approaching Russian Madness 16
- PART ONE: MADNESS, THE STATE, AND SOCIETY 34
- 1 A Cheerful Empress and Her Gloomy Critics: Catherine the Great and the Eighteenth-Century Melancholy Controversy 38
- 2 The Osvidetel’stvovanie and Ispytanie of Insanity: Psychiatry in Tsarist Russia 59
- 3 Madness as an Act of Defence of Personality in Dostoevsky’s The Double 72
- 4 Vsevolod Garshin, the Russian Intelligentsia, and Fan Hysteria 88
- 5 On Hostile Ground: Madness and Madhouse in Joseph Brodsky’s ‘Gorbunov and Gorchakov’ 103
- PART TWO: MADNESS, WAR, AND REVOLUTION 114
- 6 The Concept of Revolutionary Insanity in Russian History 118
- 7 The Politics of Etiology: Shell Shock in the Russian Army, 1914–1918 130
- 8 Lives Out of Balance: The ‘Possible World’ of Soviet Suicide during the 1920s 143
- 9 Early Soviet Forensic Psychiatric Approaches to Sex Crime, 1917–1934 163
- PART THREE: MADNESS AND CREATIVITY 182
- 10 Writing about Madness: Russian Attitudes toward Psyche and Psychiatry, 1887–1907 186
- 11 ‘Let Them Go Crazy’: Madness in the Works of Chekhov 205
- 12 The Genetics of Genius: V.P. Efroimson and the Biosocial Mechanisms of Heightened Intellectual Activity 221
- 13 Madwomen without Attics: The Crazy Creatrix and the Procreative Iurodivaia 239
- 14 A ‘New Russian’ Madness? Fedor Mikhailov’s Novel Idiot and Roman Kachanov’s Film Daun Khaus 255
- 15 Methods of Madness and Madness as a Method 276
- Afterword 296
- Bibliography 314
- Contributors 342
