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- A Herzen Reader
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- 2013
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
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A Herzen Reader presents in English for the first time one hundred essays and editorials by the radical Russian thinker Alexander Herzen (1812–1870). Herzen wrote most of these pieces for The Bell, a revolutionary newspaper he launched with the poet Nikolai Ogaryov in London in 1857. Smugglers secretly carried copies of The Bell into Russia, where it influenced debates over the emancipation of the serfs and other reforms. With his characteristic irony, Herzen addressed such issues as freedom of speech, a nonviolent path to socialism, and corruption and paranoia at the highest levels of government. He discussed what he saw as the inability of even a liberator like Czar Alexander II to commit to change. A Herzen Reader stands on its own for its fascinating glimpse into Russian intellectual life of the 1850s and 1860s. It also provides invaluable context for understanding Herzen’s contemporaries, including Fyodor Dostoevsky and Ivan Turgenev.
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xxxii
- A Note on the Text
- pp. xxxiii-xxxiv
- 7. Forward! Forward! [1856]
- pp. 46-51
- 8. Baptized Property [1857]
- pp. 51-54
- 10. A Preface to The Bell [1857]
- pp. 55-58
- 11. Venerable Travelers [1857]
- pp. 58-61
- 12. Revolution in Russia [1857]
- pp. 61-65
- 16. Censorship Is on the Rise [1858]
- pp. 71-72
- 17. Logophobia [1858]
- pp. 72-73
- 18. July 1, 1858 [1858]
- pp. 73-78
- 20. We Stand Accused [1858]
- pp. 84-87
- 21. A Bill of Indictment [1858]
- pp. 87-89
- 22. VERY DANGEROUS!!! [1859]
- pp. 90-95
- 25. The Year 1860 [1860]
- pp. 102-111
- 27. Letters from Russia [1860]
- pp. 113-116
- 28. Five Years Later [1860]
- pp. 117-121
- 29. Down with Birch Rods! [1860]
- pp. 121-123
- 30. Konstantin Sergeevich Aksakov [1861]
- pp. 124-126
- 31. On the Eve [1861]
- pp. 126-127
- 32. Friends and Comrades! [1861]
- pp. 128-130
- 35. Russian Blood Is Flowing! [1861]
- pp. 134-138
- 39. A Giant Is Awakening! [1861]
- pp. 144-148
- 42. The Cannon Fodder of Liberation [1862]
- pp. 152-156
- 43. Jubilee [1862]
- pp. 156-158
- 44. Academic Moscow [1862]
- pp. 158-161
- 45. Young and Old Russia [1862]
- pp. 161-166
- 46. Journalists and Terrorists [1862]
- pp. 167-171
- 47. A Chronicle of Terror [1862]
- pp. 171-173
- 49. The Celebration of the Millennium [1862]
- pp. 174-176
- 50. Land and Liberty [1863]
- pp. 176-177
- 51. A Lament [1863]
- pp. 177-179
- 52. 1853–1863 [1863]
- pp. 179-185
- 54. 1831–1863 [1863]
- pp. 187-202
- 57. I. Kelsiev and N. Utin [1863]
- pp. 207-208
- 58. Gallows and Journals [1863]
- pp. 208-210
- 59. At This Stage [1863]
- pp. 210-215
- 60. Mikhail Semyonovich Shchepkin [1863]
- pp. 215-220
- 62. The Furies [1864]
- pp. 222-223
- 64. N. G. Chernyshevsky [1864]
- pp. 224-225
- 65. VII Years [1864]
- pp. 226-230
- 67. 1865 [1865]
- pp. 232-233
- 68. A Letter to Emperor Alexander II [1865]
- pp. 233-238
- 69. To Our Readers [1865]
- pp. 238-241
- 70. The Serno-Solovyovich Case [1865]
- pp. 241-244
- 72. As the Year Comes to an End [1865]
- pp. 245-255
- 74. Nicholas the Orator [1865]
- pp. 256-257
- 76. Serf Owners [1866]
- pp. 261-264
- 78. From Petersburg [1866]
- pp. 271-273
- 79. 1789 [1866]
- pp. 274-276
- 80. Irkutsk and Petersburg [1866]
- pp. 276-280
- 81. Gentry Benefactors [1866]
- pp. 280-281
- 82. The News from Russia [1866]
- pp. 281-283
- 84. A Letter to Emperor Alexander II [1866]
- pp. 285-287
- 85. From Petersburg [1866]
- pp. 287-291
- 87. Katkov and the Sovereign [1866]
- pp. 297-299
- 88. A Frenzy of Denunciations [1866]
- pp. 299-300
- 89. A Quarrel Among Enemies [1866]
- pp. 300-303
- 90. America and Russia [1866]
- pp. 303-305
- 91. The Question of a Plot [1866]
- pp. 305-306
- 92. Order Triumphs! [1866–1867]
- pp. 306-322
- 94. Our System of Justice [1867]
- pp. 325-327
- 95. Moscow—Our Mother and Stepmother [1867]
- pp. 327-330
- 98. The Shot of June 6 [1867]
- pp. 332-333
- 99. Venerable Travelers (Part Two) [1867]
- pp. 334-339
- 100. 1857–1867 [1867]
- pp. 339-342
- Bibliography
- pp. 371-382
Additional Information
ISBN
9780810166264
Related ISBN(s)
9780810128477
MARC Record
OCLC
830023593
Pages
416
Launched on MUSE
2012-12-20
Language
English
Open Access
No