
Published online:
20 September 2018
Published in print:
01 February 2018
Online ISBN:
9781474445030
Print ISBN:
9781474408912
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The Perception of Russia: War and Politics The Perception of Russia: War and Politics
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Nihilists on Stage and Page Nihilists on Stage and Page
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Stepniak and the ‘Intimate Sentiments of Revolutionary Society’ Stepniak and the ‘Intimate Sentiments of Revolutionary Society’
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W. T. Stead and ‘Truth’ about Tsarist Russia W. T. Stead and ‘Truth’ about Tsarist Russia
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Notes Notes
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Works Cited Works Cited
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Chapter
13 ‘Truth About Russia’: Russia in Britain at the Fin de Siècle
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Pages
244–262
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Published:February 2018
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Vaninskaya, Anna, '‘Truth About Russia’: Russia in Britain at the Fin de Siècle', in Josephine M. Guy (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siècle Literature, Culture and the Arts, Edinburgh Companions to Literature (Edinburgh , 2018; online edn, Edinburgh Scholarship Online, 20 Sept. 2018), https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474408912.003.0014, accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter examines British cultural interest in Russia at the end of the century. It documents the variety of ways in which the British came to know Russia at the time, drawing attention to an obsession with the melodrama of Russian politics, typically mythologised as a stand-off between the autocratic Tzarist regime and the Nihilist revolutionaries. It surveys a wide range of Nihilist inspired literature, looking in detail at the contrasting responses to Russia to be found in the works of W. T. Stead, and those of the Russian exile Sergey Stepniak.
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Literary Studies (19th Century)
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