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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.
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 was the illegitimate son of Ivan Alekseevich Yakovlev, a wealthy and cultivated aristocrat, owner of more than a thousand serfs, whose family could trace its origins back to the pre-Petrine nobility.
Mar 11, 2021 · The Russian radical émigré Alexander Herzen left three works that focus on 1848: two volumes of essays, and his great autobiography, My Past and Thoughts, in which his life story pivots around 1848.
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.
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.
Alexander Herzen's own brilliance and the extraordinary circumstances of his life combine to place his memoirs among the greatest works of the modern era. Born in 1812, the illegitimate son...
My Past and Thoughts, written by Alexander Herzen—the first self-proclaimed Russian socialist—fits precisely into this genre of 19th-century Russian writing. This is a selection from an abridged version of Alexander Herzen's four-volume memoir on his childhood, youth, and adult years that spans the course of much of the 19th century.
