Lonny Harrison
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Lonny Harrison
@lonnyharrison.bsky.social
Slavicist specializing in the shadows of Russian literature from Dostoevsky to revolutionary terrorism and Soviet authoritarianism. Growing obsession with Polish lit & history. Husband, runner, dog person, audiophile. https://lonnyharrisonresearch.uta.edu/
"I Fought with My Twin" Super excited to present at World of Bob Dylan, July 24-27 @utulsa.bsky.social @bobdylancenter.bsky.social on artistic symmetries between Dylan and Dostoevsky. A lifelong fan, this is my first academic conference on Dylan and I can't wait to see all the great presentations.
July 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
One of the first modern terrorists was Moscow State University lecturer Nikolai Ishutin. He founded a group called “Hell” whose members would survey the peasants to find out which individuals the latter were unhappy with, and those named would be executed or poisoned. #PersonasOfRevolutionaryTerror
July 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Coming Soon! My forthcoming volume on Russian revolutionary terrorism for #AcademicStudiesPress, "Personas of Revolutionary Terror in Russian Fiction and Memoirs from Dostoevsky to Zenzinov" examines the tactics, motives, and psychological profiles of Russian revolutionary terrorists prior to 1917.
July 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The cult of unity on a utilitarian, political level was a civic ideal that Dostoevsky vigorously contested.
June 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Reflecting on my first book Archetypes from Underground: Notes on the Dostoevskian Self (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2016).

As a realist #Dostoevsky wrote about social types. As a "higher realist" he worked in the realm of #archetypes.

www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/A/Arch...
June 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM