Claim: Vissarion Belinsky, a literary critic,  was a Westernizer who believed that socienty had precedence over individualism, opposed Orthodoxy, autocracy and theocracy, and emphasized reason and knowledge.
Evidence: May 26] 1848) was a Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency. He agreed with Slavophiles that society had precedence over individualism, but he insisted the society had to allow the expression of individual ideas and rights. He strongly opposed Slavophiles on the role of Orthodoxy, which he considered a retrograde force. He emphasized reason and knowledge, and attacked autocracy and theocracy.