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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...
Jun 25, 2019 · A radical political thinker known as the ‘father of Russian socialism’, Alexander Herzen (1812-1870) witnessed first-hand the democratic and liberal revolutions that swept through Europe in 1848.
Apr 12, 2013 · Russia’s tumultuous and mostly regrettable post-Cold War history is paralleled in some ways by an earlier time, one that provided the setting for the incomparable émigré journalist Alexander Herzen.
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).
Mar 11, 2021 · Attempting to explain what went wrong in 1848, Herzen insists on the inability of European radicals to get beyond models drawn from the first French Revolution or Christianity or both.
Nov 24, 2016 · Did the peasants not preserve their ancient institution of the commune, Herzen asked, and does that not promise a specifically Russian socialism? Westernizing liberals imagine that one must progress by traveling the same historical path trodden by Europe, but in fact Russia can bypass all that European bourgeois vulgarity.
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Dec 8, 2016 · Kelly’s magisterial intellectual biography of Alexander Herzen not only creates a complete image of the remarkable nineteenth-century Russian philosopher and revolutionary but also reveals the roiling intellectual currents that engulfed Russia’s intelligentsia during each stage of Herzen’s life.
