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He fought for the emancipation of the Russian serfs, and after that took place in 1861 he escalated his demands regarding constitutional rights, common ownership of land, and government by the people. [12] Herzen was disillusioned with the Revolutions of 1848 but not disillusioned with revolutionary thought.
Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen was a political thinker, activist, and writer who originated the theory of a unique Russian path to socialism known as peasant populism. Herzen chronicled his career in My Past and Thoughts (1861–67), which is considered to be one of the greatest works of Russian prose.
Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen (Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ге́рцен) (April 6 [O.S. 25 March] 1812 in Moscow - January 21 [O.S. 9 January] 1870 in Paris) was a major Russian pro-Western writer and thinker generally credited with helping to create the political climate which led to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861.
HERZEN, ALEXANDER (1812–1870), Russian writer and political thinker. In the early 1840s Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was a leading member of the Westernizer group, which claimed, against the so-called Slavophiles, that Russia's historical evolution could not be understood apart from western European politics and culture.
Apr 11, 2012 · Alexander Herzen is hardly famous outside Russia, but a fictionalized version of him portrayed in playwright Tom Stoppard’s trilogy of plays "The Coast of Utopia" is well known.
Aleksandr Herzen, (born April 6, 1812, Moscow, Russia—died Jan. 21, 1870, Paris, France), Russian writer and political activist. As a student at the University of Moscow, he joined a socialist group, for which he was exiled to work in the provincial bureaucracy (1834–42).
The intellectual Alexander Herzen was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Aileen Kelly presents the first fully rounded study of the farsighted geni...
Oct 22, 2006 · Alexander Herzen, the most noble, humane, passionate, and touching figure of the Russian nineteenth century, gets dusted off every fifty years or so, when liberalism feels that it is in crisis.
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen, the Russian editor, essayist, and social philosopher, was the illegitimate son of I. A. Iakovlev. Herzen was graduated from the faculty of physics and mathematics of Moscow University in 1834 and was promptly exiled to the provinces for radicalism (1835 – 1840, 1841 – 1843).
In the first volume of his memoir, Alexander Herzen describes his imprisonment and exile due to reading “forbidden books” and discussing “dangerous ideas” (Garnett, xvii). After being sent to exile in Vyatka, he is finally freed and transferred to the ancient city of Vladimir.
