IntroductionAndrew M. DrozdBrendan G. MooneyStephen M. WoodburnChapter 1 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 DarwinismBrendan G. MooneyChapter 2 An Upheaval in Thinking Minds: Darwin's Russian Reception and Crime and PunishmentJames GoodwinChapter 3 Strakhov on Darwinism: Humans, Progress, and OrganicismBrendan G. MooneyChapter 4 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)Victoria ThorstenssonChapter 5 Nationality, Philosophy, and Science in Nikolai Danilevsky's Critique of DarwinismStephen M. WoodburnChapter 6 Darwinism "Dressed in Russian State Uniform": Mikhail Saltykov Shchedrin's "The Predators" and Other WorksCharles L. ByrdChapter 7 An Attack from the Left: Chernyshevsky's Critique of DarwinAndrew M. DrozdChapter 8 Learned Neighbors and Hypnotic Seances: On Chekhov's Darwinist ParodiesMelissa L. MillerIndexAbout the Contributors