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16 Richard English, Armed Struggle. The History of the IRA (London 2003) pp. 3-13
17 Bew, Ireland p. 375; for Pearse and Republican Catholic nationalism see Conor Cruise O’Brien, Ancestral Voices. Religion and Nationalism in Ireland (Dublin 1994) pp. 103-17
18 English, Armed Struggle p. 18
19 Peter Hart, The IRA at War 1916-1923 (Oxford 2003) pp. 141ff.
20 See the excellent account in Jackson, Ireland 1798-1998 pp. 257ff.
21 Christopher Murray, Sean O’Casey. Writer at Work (Dublin 2004) pp. 163ff.
22 Jackson, Ireland 1798-1998 pp. 345-6
Chapter 2: Russian Nihilists and Revolutionaries
1 Edvard Radzinsky, Alexander II. The Last Great Tsar (New York 2005)
2 For the general issues see John Horgan ‘The Search for the Terrorist Personality’ in Andrew Silke (ed.), Terrorists, Victims, and Society. Psychological Perspectives on Terrorism and its Consequences (Chichester 2003) PP. 3-27
3 All details from Vera Figner, Memoirs of a Revolutionist (DeKalb, Illinois 1991)
4 Jay Berman, Vera Zasulich. A Biography (Stanford 1983) p. 4
5 On Populism see Franco Venturi, Roots of Revolution. A History of the Populist and Socialist Movements in 19th Century Russia (London 2001)
6 Gary Saul Morson, ‘What is the Intelligentsia? Once More, an Old Russian Question’ Academic Questions (1993) 6, pp. 20-38; see also Martin Malia ‘What is the Intelligentsia?’ in Richard Pipes (ed.), The Russian Intelligentsia (New York 1961)
7 Ronald Hingley, Nihilists. Russian Radicals and Revolutionaries in the Reign of Alexander II (1855-81) (London 1967)
8 Nikolai Chernyshevsky, What is to be Done? Tales of the New People (Moscow 1983); William F. Woehrlin, Chernyshevskii. The Man and the Journalist (Cambridge, Massachusetts 1971); Irina Paperno, Chernyshevsky and the Age of Realism. A Study in the Semiotics of Behavior (Stanford, California 1988). There is much insight on these issues and personalities too in Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky (Princeton 1976-2002) five volumes
9 Richard Pipes, Russia under the Old Regime (London 1974) pp. 271-2
10 Adam B. Ulam, Prophets and Conspirators in Pre-Revolutionary Russia (New Brunswick 1998) pp. 1-3
11 See Roger Scruton, ‘The Nature of Evil’ in his A Political Philosophy. Arguments for Conservatism (London 2006) pp. 176ff.
12 References from Berman, Vera Zasulich
13 Richard Pipes, The Degaev Affair. Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia (New Haven 2003) tells the story with great skill
14 These debates are carefully charted by Norman Naimark, Terrorists and Social Democrats. The Russian Revolutionary Movement under Alexander III (Cambridge, Massachusetts 1983)
15 Anna Geifman, Thou Shalt Not Kill. Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia, 1894-1917 (Princeton 1993) p. 16
16 On this see now Simon Sebag Montefiore’s gripping Young Stalin (London 2007)
17 Boris Souvarine, Stalin. A Critical Survey of Bolshevism (New York 1939) pp. 94ff. is still the best account
Chapter 3: Black: Anarchists and Terrorism
1 See James Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men. Origins of the Revolutionary Faith (New York 1980) pp. 72-92 and François Furet and Mona Ozouf (eds), Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution (Cambridge, Massachusetts 1989) pp. 179-85. The quotation from Kropotkin is from Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible. A History of Anarchism (London 1992) p. 316. For an excellent collection of key texts on the influences that comprised modern terrorism see Walter Laqueur (ed.), Voices of Terror (New York 2004)
2 Carl Wittke, Against the Current. The Life of Karl Heinzen (Chicago, Illinois 1945) is reliable but overly sympathetic; as a corrective see Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon, ‘From the Dagger to the Bomb: Karl Heinzen and the Evolution of Political Terror’ Terrorism and Political Violence (2004) 16, pp. 97ff.
3 Frederic Trautmann, The Voice of Terror. A Biography of Johann Most (Westport, Connecticut 1980) for these details of Most’s life
4 See ‘Assassination’ Alarm 18 April