num_pages: 336
description: The theme that links the essays in this book, written over 30 years, is the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia, which Isaiah Berlin describes as the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world.ContentsIntroduction: A Complex Vision, by Aileen Kelly- Russia and 1848- The Hedgehog and the Fox- Herzen and Bakunin on Individual Liberty- A Remarkable Decade I. The Birth of the Russian IntelligentsiaII. German Romanticism in Petersburg and MoscowIII. Vissarion BelinskyIV. Alexander Herzen- Russian Populism- Tolstoy and Enlightenment- Fathers and ChildrenIndex
language: English
title: Russian Thinkers
titlecomplete: Russian Thinkers
genres: Russian History, Essays, Russia, Politics, Philosophy, Biography, Literature, Russian Literature, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 717
publisher: Penguin Books