![]() In May and June, there are the successive attacks on the aged kaiser in Berlin by the anarchists Holding and Nobiling, which provide Bismarck with his long-sought-after pretext for repressing the utterly innocent German social democrats. In April, Alexander Solovev makes his attempt on the czar, the beginning of the royal game hunt that will culminate in Alexander II's assassination by Peoples' Will in 1881. ![]() In January, Vera Zasulich wounds General Trepov, the sadistic jailer of the Narodniki. ![]() The calendar of that year is extraordinary. Beginning in 1878, in fact, Bakuninists of several nationalities and their cousins, the Russian Narodniki, embraced assassination as a potent, if last-ditch weapon in the struggle against autocracy. Why did you choose those specific dates as bookends?Įighteen seventy-eight was the inception of the "classical" age of terrorism: the half-century during which the bourgeois imaginary was haunted by the infamous figure of the bomb-throwing nihilist or anarchist. But I have also been busy on an extracurricular project entitled, after a poem in Mother Earth, "Heroes of Hell." It aims to be a world history of revolutionary terrorism from 1878 to 1932. Mike Davis: My day job currently is a grassroots history of Los Angeles in the sixties. Jon Wiener: I've heard through the grapevine that you are working on a book about terrorism. ![]() Interview Mike Davis Talks about the "Heroes of Hell" Jon Wiener In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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