Doubt, Atheism, and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Intelligentsia

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Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Note on Transliteration and Translation xiii Introduction 3 Part 1. Doubt 1 Forbidden Fruit: The Wisdom Lovers 21 2 Providence and Doubt: Alexander Herzen, Nikolai Ogarev, and Their Friends 54 Part 2. Atheism 3 Atheists of 1849: Katenev’s Tobacco Store Circle and Petrashevsky’s “Fridays” 89 4 Atheism as the Predicate for Salvation: Nikolai Chernyshevsky and Nikolai Dobroliubov 120 Part 3. Two Modes of Living without God 5 Atheism and Apocalypse: Revolutionaries in the Provinces, 1856–1863 153 6 Doubt after Atheism: Dmitrii Pisarev 181 Conclusion 209 vii Notes 215 Bibliography 267 Index 293 viii Contents ...