Nineteenth-Century Russia:: Opposition to Autocracy

ISBN-13: 9780582357679 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 158 str.

Derek Offord

Opis

Russia witnessed the flowering of a rich intellectual and cultural life in the 19th century, the origins of which lie in the intelligentsia's opposition to autocratic rule. This text provides a short introduction to 19th-century Russia, focusing on the rise of radicalism.

Spis treści

An introduction to the series Vll Note on referencing system Vlll Note on dates, transliteration and use of Russian terms IX Foreword XI Map: Nineteenth-century Russia Xlll PART ONE: THE HISTORICAL SETTING 1 1. THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE 1 Autocracy 1 Nobility and service 2 Serfdom and social backwardness 3 2. CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE 7 Westernization 7 The intelligentsia 9 PART TWO: PHASES OF OPPOSITION 12 3. THE AGE OF ALEXANDER I (1801-25) 12 The 'fine beginning of Alexander's days' 12 The Decembrist Revolt 13 4. THE AGE OF NICHOLAS I (1825-55) 20 Russian culture in the age of Nicholas 20 Chaadaev's 'Philosophical Letter' 23 Slavophilism 25 Liberal Westernizers 29 Belinsky 33 Herzen 37 The Petrashevtsy 41 VI Contents 5. INTELLECTUAL REVOLT (1855-c. 1868) 44 The effects and aftermath of the Crimean War 44 Conservative nationalist thought in the 1850s and 1860s 48 Russian liberalism after the Crimean War 50 Radical thought: Chernyshevsky 55 Radical thought: Dobroliubov, Pisarev and the arts 59 Seditious literature and revolutionary groups in the 1860s 62 6. THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN THE 1870s 66 Radical literature and thought, 1868-73 66 Lavrov 68 Bakunin 70 Tkachov 72 The 'going to the people' 75 Land and Liberty 78 The People's Will, 1879-81 81 7. OPPOSITION AFTER 1881 85 Tolstoy 85 Plekhanov and the 'Emancipation of Labour' Group 88 Revolutionary groups in the 1880s 92 Political movements in the 1890s 97 PART THREE: ASSESSMENT 102 PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS 106 Bibliography 126 Index

O autorze

Derek Offord is Professor of History and Head of the Department of Russian Studies at the University of Bristol.