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Russian Thinkers

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The theme that links the essays in this book, written over 30 years, is the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia, which Isaiah Berlin describes as the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world.

Contents

Introduction: A Complex Vision, by Aileen Kelly

- Russia and 1848

- The Hedgehog and the Fox

- Herzen and Bakunin on Individual Liberty

- A Remarkable Decade
I. The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia
II. German Romanticism in Petersburg and Moscow
III. Vissarion Belinsky
IV. Alexander Herzen

- Russian Populism

- Tolstoy and Enlightenment

- Fathers and Children

Index

Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books

Release: October 25, 1979

ISBN: 0140136258

ISBN 13: 9780140136258

Russian Thinkers

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The theme that links the essays in this book, written over 30 years, is the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia, which Isaiah Berlin describes as the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world.

Contents

Introduction: A Complex Vision, by Aileen Kelly

- Russia and 1848

- The Hedgehog and the Fox

- Herzen and Bakunin on Individual Liberty

- A Remarkable Decade
I. The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia
II. German Romanticism in Petersburg and Moscow
III. Vissarion Belinsky
IV. Alexander Herzen

- Russian Populism

- Tolstoy and Enlightenment

- Fathers and Children

Index

Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books

Release: October 25, 1979

ISBN: 0140136258

ISBN 13: 9780140136258

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