Acknowledgments
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Introduction: Approaching Russian Madness
ANGELA BRINTLINGER
PART ONE: MADNESS, THE STATE, AND SOCIETY
1 A Cheerful Empress and Her Gloomy Critics: Catherine the Great and the Eighteenth-Century Melancholy Controversy
ILYA VINITSKY
2 The Osvidetel’stvovanie and Ispytanie of Insanity: Psychiatry in Tsarist Russia
LIA IANGOULOVA
3 Madness as an Act of Defence of Personality in Dostoevsky’sThe Double
ELENA DRYZHAKOVA
4 Vsevolod Garshin, the Russian Intelligentsia, and Fan Hysteria
ROBERT D. WESSLING
5 On Hostile Ground: Madness and Madhouse in Joseph Brodsky’s‘Gorbunov and Gorchakov'
LEV LOSEFF
PART TWO: MADNESS, WAR, AND REVOLUTION
6 The Concept of Revolutionary Insanity in Russian History
MARTIN A. MILLER
7 The Politics of Etiology: Shell Shock in the Russian Army, 1914–1918
IRINA SIROTKINA
8 Lives Out of Balance: The ‘Possible World’ of Soviet Suicide during the 1920s
KENNETH PINNOW
9 Early Soviet Forensic Psychiatric Approaches to Sex Crime, 1917–1934
DAN HEALEY
PART THREE: MADNESS AND CREATIVITY
10 Writing about Madness: Russian Attitudes toward Psyche and Psychiatry, 1887–1907
ANGELA BRINTLINGER
11 ‘Let Them Go Crazy’: Madness in the Works of Chekhov
MARGARITA ODESSKAYA
12 The Genetics of Genius: V.P. Efroimson and the Biosocial Mechanisms of Heightened Intellectual Activity
YVONNE HOWELL
13 Madwomen without Attics: The Crazy Creatrix and the Procreative Iurodivaia
HELENA GOSCILO
14 A ‘New Russian’ Madness? Fedor Mikhailov’s Novel Idiot and Roman Kachanov’s Film Daun Khaus
ANDREI ROGACHEVSKII
15 Methods of Madness and Madness as a Method
MIKHAIL EPSTEIN
Afterword
JULIE V. BROWN
Bibliography
Contributors