Midpassage
Subtitle: Alexander Herzen and European revolution, 1847-1852
By: Judith E. Zimmerman.
Series: Series in Russian and East European studies ;
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780822938279
Subjects: Herzen, Aleksandr, 1812-1870 -- Political and social views.; Herzen, Aleksandr, 1812-1870 -- Exile -- Europe.; Revolutionaries -- Soviet Union -- Biography.; Authors, Russian -- 19th century -- Biography.; Europe -- History -- 1848-1849.
Other titles: Mid-passage.
Description: The story of both a man and an era, Midpassage is an engrossing account of Alexander Herzen's role in the revolution of 1848 and his complex ideological and personal interactions with such European radicals as Marx, Proudhon, and Mazzini. Russia's modern revolutionary movement really began with Herzen (1812-1870), often called the first revolutionary exile. As a youth, he had committed himself to the ideals of the Decembrists and to the liberation of Russia from tsarist oppression. In 1847, after two periods of internal exile, he left his native land forever. Midpassage is both about Herzen's physical flight from East to West and the intellectual search, which culminated in a balance between the two, that characterized his maturity. - Jacket flap.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 231-294.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: The background; title: The traveler; title: Paris : the first months; title: Herzen and the Paris revolution; title: Geneva and Proudhon; title: The uncensored voice; title: The crisis; title: The revolutionary community; title: Conclusion