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.
Revisiting Russian Radicals is a collection of ten articles that seeks to promote a revisitation of the Russian Radicals who have been somewhat unjustly forgotten in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union. Rather than viewing the radicals through the lens of the 1917 October Revolution, the authors seek to analyze them on their own terms and explore new aspects of their legacy. The chapters provide a fresh look at some well-known radicals like Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov, and Pisarev as well as examinations of lesser-known figures, and offer an interdisciplinary approach to their investigations, combining historical and literary analysis. A lengthy introduction is included for those who are non-Slavists, and for the newer generation of Slavists who may not be as familiar with these figures.
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This excellent collection of essays not only revisits, but also rethinks, revises, and rediscovers the radical critics of mid-nineteenth-century Russian literature. It includes provocative studies of familiar figures (Dobrolyubov, Chernyshevsky, and Pisarev), as well as new work on lesser-known critics (Kushchevsky, Osipovich-Novodvorsky, and others). It is both an illuminating and refreshing read -- Michael R. Katz, C.V. Starr Professor Emeritus, Middlebury College
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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.
Foreword Christopher Ely
Introduction: Russian Radicals Revisited Andrew M. Drozd
Chapter 1: Nikolai Dobrolyubovs Social and Political Theory Revisited Alexey
Vdovin
Chapter 2: Rakhmetov and Reading in Chernyshevskys What Is to Be Done?
Andrew M. Drozd
Chapter 3: New People as Others: Race and Empire in Nikolai Chernyshevskys
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 1860s1870s
Lindsay Ceballos
Chapter 5: Dmitry Pisarev: Nihilism, Darwinism, and Mans 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-Shchedrins 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: Bakunins Texts and Their
Anarchist Legacy James Goodwin
About the Contributors
Andrew M. Drozd is associate professor of Russian at the University of Alabama.
Brendan G. Mooney is Fellow at the Havighurst Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and visiting assistant professor of Russian at Miami University of Ohio.
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