Martin Miller is Professor in the Department of History and the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University, North Carolina. A specialist in Russian revolutionary movements, his earlier books include Freud and the Bolsheviks (1998) and The Russian Revolution (2001).

'Miller has written a splendid scene-shifting narrative of dilemmas of power, with cameos of individual terrorists, theoreticians of terror, architects of state terror, and scenes of terror across the globe. His study offers deep understanding of the basic and enduring reasons for both Red and White Terror.' Philip Pomper, Wesleyan University

• 1. Writing the history of terrorism; 2. The origins of political violence in the pre-modern era; 3. Trajectories of terrorism in the transition to modernity; 4. Nineteenth-century Russian revolutionary and tsarist terrorisms; 5. European nation-state terrorism and its antagonists, at home and abroad, 1848–1914; 6. Terrorism in a democracy: the United States; 7. Communist and Fascist authoritarian terror; 8. Global ideological terror during the Cold War; 9. Toward the present: terrorism in theory and practice.

Martin Miller is Professor in the Department of History and the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University, North Carolina. A specialist in Russian revolutionary movements, his earlier books include Freud and the Bolsheviks (1998) and The Russian Revolution (2001).

'Miller has written a splendid scene-shifting narrative of dilemmas of power, with cameos of individual terrorists, theoreticians of terror, architects of state terror, and scenes of terror across the globe. His study offers deep understanding of the basic and enduring reasons for both Red and White Terror.' Philip Pomper, Wesleyan University

• 1. Writing the history of terrorism; 2. The origins of political violence in the pre-modern era; 3. Trajectories of terrorism in the transition to modernity; 4. Nineteenth-century Russian revolutionary and tsarist terrorisms; 5. European nation-state terrorism and its antagonists, at home and abroad, 1848–1914; 6. Terrorism in a democracy: the United States; 7. Communist and Fascist authoritarian terror; 8. Global ideological terror during the Cold War; 9. Toward the present: terrorism in theory and practice.