Instead, she demonstrates that Brown's activities--his attempts to free slaves in Kansas as well as his attack at Harper's Ferry--drew the attention of the Russian radical journalist Nikolai
Chernyshevskii, who is in turn alleged to have inserted a character based on Brown, Rakhmetov, into his highly influential novel, What Is to Be Done?
Chernyshevskii. Nova York: Twayne Publishers Inc, 1967.
Because Russia lagged behind Western Europe economically, Russian socialists such as Alexander Herzen (1812-1870) and Nikolai
Chernyshevskii (1828-1889) believed that it could avoid the initial stages of capitalist accumulation (and all of its horrors) and leap into socialism by emulating the peasant communes with their culture of equality through distribution.
(This contrast may owe something to
Chernyshevskii's banal dissertation on aesthetics, in which vitality and torpor were identified as key components in the conceptions of beauty that
Chernyshevskii attributed to the common people and the upper classes respectively.) In the process of idealizing the peasant woman, Mondry contends, Uspenskii desexualized her body and indulged a fantasy about' physically strong maidens', thus revealing a 'Christian anxiety around corporeality' (p.
a crude didactic novel by Nikolai
Chernyshevskii, the son of a priest, the nihilists made several attempts to topple the existing order before assassinating Alexander II, the tsar who approved the "great reforms" of the 1860s.
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Chernyshevskii Street, the same one inhabited by Savin.
One finds also, in contrast to both Soviet and Western critics of Marx's "Oriental despotism" thesis who charge that it does not constitute a class analysis, that the 1881 drafts contain an explicit discussion, drawn in part from the populist
Chernyshevskii, of the concrete mechanisms through which the mir was exploited by the state, the landed nobility, and local merchants and users.
These evaluations taught KUTV students to measure one another against a distinctly Soviet standard of masculinity modeled on revolutionary heroes such as the ones created by Nikolai
Chernyshevskii, Sergei Nechaev, and more contemporary Soviet writers.
The central focus of the study falls on the work of Vladimir Solov'ev, Lev Shestov, Vasilii Rozanov, and Nikolai Berdiaev, with reflections on a prehistory in the works of Vissarion Belinskii and Nikolai
Chernyshevskii and 'survival' in the works of Aleksei Losev, Andrei Platonov, and Boris Pasternak.
Many intelligent Russians decided that the best response to endemic poverty was to join the revolutionary movement and work for socialism, but except for
Chernyshevskii they do not figure among those whom she considers seriously concerned about poverty.
Iconic cultural figures such as Karamzin, Pushkin, Belinskii, Herzen, Turgenev, and
Chernyshevskii figure prominendy.