Claudia Verhoeven is Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University.

The Odd Man Karakozov is a subtle, challenging, and imaginative work. It deserves to be widely read not just by students of modern Russian history but by all those interested in modern political violence and its interpenetration with forms of subjectivity, art, and mass culture.- Daniel Beer (Slavic Review) Verhoeven argues that modern terrorism began in nineteenth-century Russia... on April 4, 1866, [when] Dmitry Karakozov attempted to assassinate Czar Alexander II.... Verhoeven's thesis is comprehensive and thought provoking. She places the attempted assassination within the political context of social changes in Russia and other parts of Europe. She achieves this goal, incorporating the roles of Russian law, technological change, the emerging and competing media, and the advent of modernity. It is an outstanding analysis.- Jonathan R. White (The Historian) Verhoeven's careful inspection of Karakozov's failed assassination of Alexander II reads like an extremely well-researched detective story.- Lonny Harrison (Slavic and East European Journal) Verhoeven's powers of observation are formidable, her insights startlingly original, and her narrative masterfully staged on the level of the scene, the sentence, and the word.- Lynn Patyk (Russian Review)

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration, Translation, Dates, and Dramatis PersonaeIntroduction1. From the Files of the Karakozov Case: The Virtual Birth of Terrorism2. The Real Rakhmetov: The Image of the Revolutionary after Karakozov3. "A Life for the Tsar": Tsaricide in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction4. Raskolnikov, Karakozov, and the Etiology of a "New Word"5. Armiak; or "So Many Things in an Overcoat!"6. "Factual Propaganda," an Autopsy; or, the Morbid Origins of April 4, 18667. The Head of the TsaricideConclusion: The Point of April 4, 1866AppendixesA. Dramatis PersonaeB. Individuals Involved in the Investigation and TrialsC. The Karakozov Case, 1866–Present: Sources and HistoriographyList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

Claudia Verhoeven is Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University.

The Odd Man Karakozov is a subtle, challenging, and imaginative work. It deserves to be widely read not just by students of modern Russian history but by all those interested in modern political violence and its interpenetration with forms of subjectivity, art, and mass culture.- Daniel Beer (Slavic Review) Verhoeven argues that modern terrorism began in nineteenth-century Russia... on April 4, 1866, [when] Dmitry Karakozov attempted to assassinate Czar Alexander II.... Verhoeven's thesis is comprehensive and thought provoking. She places the attempted assassination within the political context of social changes in Russia and other parts of Europe. She achieves this goal, incorporating the roles of Russian law, technological change, the emerging and competing media, and the advent of modernity. It is an outstanding analysis.- Jonathan R. White (The Historian) Verhoeven's careful inspection of Karakozov's failed assassination of Alexander II reads like an extremely well-researched detective story.- Lonny Harrison (Slavic and East European Journal) Verhoeven's powers of observation are formidable, her insights startlingly original, and her narrative masterfully staged on the level of the scene, the sentence, and the word.- Lynn Patyk (Russian Review)

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration, Translation, Dates, and Dramatis PersonaeIntroduction1. From the Files of the Karakozov Case: The Virtual Birth of Terrorism2. The Real Rakhmetov: The Image of the Revolutionary after Karakozov3. "A Life for the Tsar": Tsaricide in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction4. Raskolnikov, Karakozov, and the Etiology of a "New Word"5. Armiak; or "So Many Things in an Overcoat!"6. "Factual Propaganda," an Autopsy; or, the Morbid Origins of April 4, 18667. The Head of the TsaricideConclusion: The Point of April 4, 1866AppendixesA. Dramatis PersonaeB. Individuals Involved in the Investigation and TrialsC. The Karakozov Case, 1866–Present: Sources and HistoriographyList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

Claudia Verhoeven is Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University.

The Odd Man Karakozov is a subtle, challenging, and imaginative work. It deserves to be widely read not just by students of modern Russian history but by all those interested in modern political violence and its interpenetration with forms of subjectivity, art, and mass culture.- Daniel Beer (Slavic Review) Verhoeven argues that modern terrorism began in nineteenth-century Russia... on April 4, 1866, [when] Dmitry Karakozov attempted to assassinate Czar Alexander II.... Verhoeven's thesis is comprehensive and thought provoking. She places the attempted assassination within the political context of social changes in Russia and other parts of Europe. She achieves this goal, incorporating the roles of Russian law, technological change, the emerging and competing media, and the advent of modernity. It is an outstanding analysis.- Jonathan R. White (The Historian) Verhoeven's careful inspection of Karakozov's failed assassination of Alexander II reads like an extremely well-researched detective story.- Lonny Harrison (Slavic and East European Journal) Verhoeven's powers of observation are formidable, her insights startlingly original, and her narrative masterfully staged on the level of the scene, the sentence, and the word.- Lynn Patyk (Russian Review)

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration, Translation, Dates, and Dramatis PersonaeIntroduction1. From the Files of the Karakozov Case: The Virtual Birth of Terrorism2. The Real Rakhmetov: The Image of the Revolutionary after Karakozov3. "A Life for the Tsar": Tsaricide in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction4. Raskolnikov, Karakozov, and the Etiology of a "New Word"5. Armiak; or "So Many Things in an Overcoat!"6. "Factual Propaganda," an Autopsy; or, the Morbid Origins of April 4, 18667. The Head of the TsaricideConclusion: The Point of April 4, 1866AppendixesA. Dramatis PersonaeB. Individuals Involved in the Investigation and TrialsC. The Karakozov Case, 1866–Present: Sources and HistoriographyList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex