Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Dates -- Introduction -- 1. Emotional Communities in the Age of Pushkin -- 2. Love and Friendship in Decembrist Lyrics -- 3. Russia's Radical Byron: Reexamining the "Decembrist Pushkin" -- 4. Ryleev, Pushkin, and the Poeticization of Russian History -- 5. Civic Sentimentalism after Prison and Exile: Glinka and Batenkov -- Coda: Civic Sentimentalism and the Decembrist Legacy in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index