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Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ге́рцен, romanized: Aleksándr Ivánovich Gértsen; 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1812 – 21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1870) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the precursor of Russian socialism and one of the main precursors of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Trudoviks and the agrarian American Populist Party).
Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen (born April 6 [March 25, Old Style], 1812, Moscow, Russia—died Jan. 21 [Jan. 9], 1870, Paris, France) 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 ...
Alexander Herzen fought a propaganda war through the journals that had the constant goal of attaining individual liberty for Russians. Herzen understood the competing claims to power and was aware of the fundamental failings of the revolutionary doctrines that guided the 1848 revolutionary failures.
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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.
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). Returning to Moscow, he joined the Westernizers but then turned to ...
Jul 10, 2024 · Herzen, who emigrated in 1847, describes himself as arriving in Paris as pilgrims once arrived at Jerusalem. By his own account, he rapidly discovered the fundamentally bourgeois character of French civilization and then witnessed the crushing of the June insurrection. The political debacle was compounded by personal tragedy – the deaths of ...
A Russian editor, essayist, and social philosopher who criticized Hegelian idealism and defended individual freedom and moral relativism. He emigrated from Russia in 1847 and founded the journal Kolokol in London.
