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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2021] True, Legitimate, and Moral? Terrorist Violence in Eastern Europe and its Transnational Public Spheres, 1881–1917
DESCRIPTION:The term “terrorism” is associated with struggles of interpretation involving perpetrators, states and state-related actors, churches and the media. The debates revolved around questions of justice, morality and consequently the legitimacy of terrorist violence. The term terrorism in its modern framing first emerged in the Russian Empire. By the turn of the century, terrorism had already turned into a multifacted and contested concept. While most perpetrators considered terrorism to be a morally legitimate form of violence in their fight against an oppressive regime, others regarded it as an anarchist, criminal and thus irrational and destructive threat to the existing order. Interestingly, the dispute over the interpretation of Russian terrorist violence was already then being fought on a transnational stage.
Framed by a commentary by Anke Hilbrenner, the section explores this global dimension of the debate and its repercussions on terrorist violence in the Russian Empire, placing the initially national phenomenon in the context of a transnational history of violence in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Moritz Florin examines the transnational circulation of images of terrorist violence from the Tsarist Empire with a particular focus on questions of media history and discourse analysis. Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal analyzes the adaptations of arguments by the violent actors, and their falling in line with transnationally recognized narratives of legitimate violence. This served both the to generate sympathy abroad and to further justify violence within the group. Vitalij Fastovskij analyses the development of the inner-Russian discourse in the context of emerging right-wing violence, which in the eyes of the protagonists of the time bore a striking similarity to “left-wing” terrorism.
Der Beitrag True, Legitimate, and Moral? Terrorist Violence in Eastern Europe and its Transnational Public Spheres, 1881–1917 erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2021.
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