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Oct 23, 2017 · In his memoir, My Past and Thoughts, Alexander Herzen, a Russian writer and thinker, recorded his feelings when he encountered a group of these Jewish recruits in 1835. He described the scene...
His parents were well-educated moderately-observant Jews. The wider family, though, was devout, and Berlin drew wry pleasure from the fact that Menachem Schneerson, the influential ‘Lubavitcher Rebbe’ of the Hasidic dynasty, was a distant cousin.
Oct 22, 2006 · October 22, 2006. The Russian radical writer and philosopher Alexander Herzen loved Rome for its warmth and spontaneity, but he was a little chagrined to find himself there when the revolution...
Feb 23, 2007 · With cruel precision, Herzen describes her foghorn voice, her simpering Romantic vocabulary, her appetite for self-abasement before the altar of genius. As a character assassin, Herzen knows no...
- British Exile 1852 - 1864
- Writings
- Free Russian Press
- Russian Radicals and Liberals View of Herzen
- Influence in The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- References
Alexander Herzen experienced 12 years in exile. His exile writings were a product of his oppressive experiences in Russia under the arch conservative regime of Nicholas I of Russia, and of the failed 1848 revolutions. Herzen had little revolutionary success prior to British. Herzen used exile as an opportunity to advance and refine his own understa...
His literary career began in 1842 with the publication of an essay, in Russian, on "Diletantism in Science," under the pseudonym of Iskander, the Turkish form of his Christian name. His second work, also in Russian, was his Letters on the Study of Nature (1845-1846). In 1847 his novel, Kto Vinovat? (Who is to Blame?), appeared. About the same time ...
But it was as a political writer that Herzen gained the vast reputation which he at one time enjoyed. Having founded in London his Free Russian Press (the fortunes of which, during its ten years, he recollected in a book published (in Russian) in 1863) he issued a great number of Russian works, all leveling criticism against the system of governmen...
Herzen drew criticism from both liberals who were against violence as a political tool and from radicals who thought Herzen was too weak. Liberals led by Chicherin and Konstantin Kavelin believed individual freedom would be achieved through the rationalization of social relations. Their etatist variety of liberalism was opposed by Herzen as it did ...
Herzen was a populist writer, supporting the common person's interest and fighting against corruption. The rise in populism by 1880 led to a favorable reevaluation of the writings of Herzen, as he reappeared as the heroic creator of the movement. The emancipation of the serfs would again popularize Herzen's exile writings, as they had addressed wha...
Berlin, Isaiah. Russian Thinkers. London: The Hogarth Press, 1979. ISBN 0670613711A. Herzen, "Another Variation on an Old Theme, A Letter to X.I.S. Turgenev." (1857). in The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen. Vol IV. London: Chatto and Windus, 1968.__________. "Bazarov Once More. Letter I." (1868). The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen. Vol IV. Chatto and Windus. London (1968).__________. "Ends and Beginnings: Letter to I.S. Turgenev." (1862) in The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen. Vol IV. London: Chatto and Windus, 1968. ISBN 0520042107The 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...
Nov 24, 2016 · Born in 1812, he was the illegitimate son of a wealthy aristocrat, who gave him the German surname Herzen (meaning “of the heart”) in tribute to the boy’s mother, a German girl he had smuggled into Russia disguised as a boy.
