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In his "Poetic Responses to the Death of Gumilev," Ivan Martynov has chronicled the repercussions of Gumilev's execution by the Cheka in August 1921 in the poetry of his contemporaries. Martynov recalls those poets who remained faithful to Gumilev and marked his death with memorable poems as well as the opportunists who publicly and loudly praised his executioners. Among those who betrayed Gumilev for selfish reasons, Martynov cites such former close friends as Elizaveta Polonskaia, Mikhail Zenkevich, Larisa Reisner, and Sergei Gorodetskii. Their cynicism and cowardice were, however, more than offset by the loyalty and resourcefulness of, among others, Anna Akhmatova, Georgii Adamovich, Nikolai Otsup, Ida Nappel'baum and Irina Odoevtseva. Despite the very real danger, these poets refused to renounce Gumilev in public. Because the Soviet censor would allow no overt references to Gumilev, much less poems in commemoration of his death, his friends were able to refer to him only obliquely in the months following his execution.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Note -- Introduction: Just Assassins? - Anthony Anemone -- Historical Models of Terror in Decembrist Literature - Ludmilla A. Trigos -- All of a Sudden: Dostoevsky's Demonologies of Terror - Val Vinokur -- Fool or Saint? Writers Reading the Zasulich Case - Donna Oliver -- The Terrorist as Novelist: Sergei Stepniak-Kravchinsky - Peter Scotto -- The Spiridonova Case, 1906: Terror, Myth, and Martyrdom - Sally A. Boniece -- The Byronic Terrorist: Boris Savinkov's Literary Self-Mythologization - Lynn Ellen Patyk -- Andrei Bely's Petersburg and the Dynamics of Political Response - Timothy Langen -- Exile's Vengeance: Trotsky and the Morality of Terrorism - Martin A. Miller -- The Afterlife of Terrorists: Commemorating the People's Will in Early Soviet Russia - James Frank Goodwin -- "Everyone Here Was Carrying Out Orders": Songs of War and Terror in Chechnya - Anna Brodsky -- Narrating Terror: The Face and Place of Violence in Valery Todorovsky's My Stepbrother Frankenstein - Brian James Baer -- Stage(d) Terrorism - Birgit Beumers -- Russia's 9/11: Performativity and Discursive Instability in Television Coverage of the Beslan Atrocity - Stephen Hutchings -- Afterword: Russia, a Revolutionary Life - Nina L. Khrushcheva -- Contributors