Aнархисты в изображении Aлексея Толстого
Russian anarchists in the writings of Aleksei N. Tolstoy

Summary/Abstract: The study views figures of Russian anarchists in the writings of Aleksei N. Tolstoy. During WWI he was a permanent author of the liberal “Russkie vedomosti” and published a filo-Semitic story, but after the Revolution he used physical and linguistic anti-Semitic stereotypes for his images of revolutionaries (never giving his personages identifiable Jewish names or indicating their nationality). In emigration and right after it Tolstoy painted his contemporaries, Russian Jews, vividly and recognizably, abandoning all stereotypes. In Stalin’s era, however, the writer mobilized all old anti-Semitic clichés to draw Russian anarchists who were Bolshevik’s competitors and enemies, often sinning against historic fact.

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