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Informationen zum Autor Andrew M. Drozd is associate professor of Russian at the University of Alabama. Brendan G. Mooney is fellow at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies and visiting assistant professor of Russian at Miami University of Ohio. Stephen M. Woodburn is professor of history at Southwestern College in Kansas. Klappentext This book examines the reception of Darwin's books and ideas in Russia as a cultural phenomenon, involving language, literature, science, philosophy, and humor. Diverse writers reveal the impact of the Darwinian moment on Russian minds and the public exchange of ideas, reflecting the optimism and anxiety of the late imperial era. Zusammenfassung This book examines the reception of Darwin’s books and ideas in Russia as a cultural phenomenon, involving language, literature, science, philosophy, and humor. Diverse writers reveal the impact of the Darwinian moment on Russian minds and the public exchange of ideas, reflecting the optimism and anxiety of the late imperial era. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Brendan G. Mooney What's in a Word?: A History of the Words "Evolution" and "Natural Selection" in Russian and of Kliment Timiriazev's Legacy as a Translator and Popularizer of Darwinism James Goodwin An Upheaval in Thinking Minds: Darwin's Russian Reception as a Contextual Source in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment Brendan G. Mooney Nikolai Strakhovon Darwinism: Humans, Progress, and Organicism Victoria Thorstensson Anti-Darwinism as Anti-Nihilism: The Conservative Response to Darwinism in Mikhail Katkov's Russian Messenger and The Moscow News and Boleslav Markevich's Pedagogical Romance Marina from Alyrog (1873) Stephen M. Woodburn Nationality, Philosophy, and Science in Nikolai Danilevsky's Critique of Darwinism Charles Byrd Darwinism "Dressed in Russian State Uniform": Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin's "The Predators" and Other Works Andrew M. Drozd An Attack from the Left: Nikolai Chernyshevsky's Critique of Darwin Melissa L. Miller Learned Neighbors and Hypnotic Seances: On Anton Chekhov's Darwinist Parodies Index About the Contributors ...