Revisiting Russian Radicals

This volume is a collection of ten articles on the Russian Radicals by an international team of scholars. The chapters provide a fresh look at some well-known radicals like Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov, and Pisarev, as well as examinations of lesser-known figures.

List of contents

Foreword Christopher Ely
Introduction: Russian Radicals Revisited Andrew M. Drozd
Chapter 1: Nikolai Dobrolyubov's Social and Political Theory Revisited Alexey Vdovin
Chapter 2: Rakhmetov and Reading in Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done? Andrew M. Drozd
Chapter 3: New People as Others: Race and Empire in Nikolai Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done? Valeria Sobol
Chapter 4: Who Can Claim the "Heritage of Serfdom?": On the Racial Representation of Radical Heroes in Russian Literature of the 1860s-1870s Lindsay Ceballos
Chapter 5: Dmitry Pisarev: Nihilism, Darwinism, and Man's Place in Nature Brendan G. Mooney
Chapter 6: The History of a Plot: Nikolai Uspensky and the Representation of the Narod in Russian Fiction Kirill Zubkov
Chapter 7: "The Expansion of Western Civilization": Aleksandr Pypin on Pan-Slavism and Czech Nationalism Anastasia Williams
Chapter 8: The Napoleonic Myth in Saltykov-Shchedrin's The History of a Town and The Pompadours Charles L. Byrd
Chapter 9: Peacocks and Crows: The Populist Discourse on Progress and Individual Happiness in the Works of Ivan Kushchevsky and Andrei Osipovich-Novodvorsky Victoria Thorstensson
Chapter 10: Reconstructing the Radical Mind: Bakunin's Texts and Their Anarchist Legacy James Goodwin
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Edited by Andrew M. Drozd and Brendan G. Mooney - Foreword by Christopher Ely - Contributions by Andrew M. Drozd; Brendan G. Mooney; Charles L. Byrd; Lindsay Ceballos; James Goodwin; Valeria Sobol; Victoria Thorstensson; Alexey Vdovin; Anastasia Williams

Summary

This volume is a collection of ten articles on the Russian Radicals by an international team of scholars. The chapters provide a fresh look at some well-known radicals like Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov, and Pisarev, as well as examinations of lesser-known figures.

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• Authors: Andrew M. Mooney Drozd
• Assisted by: Andrew M. Drozd (Editor), Drozd Andrew M. (Editor), Brendan G. Mooney (Editor), Ely Christopher (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9781666944785
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-478-5
• No. of pages: 354
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Eastern Europe, Russia, Literature: history & criticism, History of specific lands, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, History of other lands, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern, HISTORY / Russia / General, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era