Alexander Herzen
Russian author, philosopher, and revolutionary (1812-1870) · Switzerland · Writers · Died at 57
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Something wrong?He wrote from exile in London, sending words east that helped crack open serfdom in Russia. Alexander Herzen shaped Russian socialism before it had a name, and his autobiography remains one of the form's peaks in any language.
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, It is both painful and shameful to be a slave.
The peasants will be emancipated if there is a future for Rus and for the Slavic world.
We were a small group of college friends who kept together after our course was over, and continued to share the same views and the same ideals.
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Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was born on 6 April 1812 in Russia, into a world he would spend his life trying to remake. His writings became the intellectual foundation for Russian agrarian populism, seeding movements from the Narodniki to the Socialist-Revolutionaries. Exiled in London, he published essays and manifestos aimed at his homeland, contributing to the political pressure that culminated in the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. His social novel Who is to Blame? appeared in 1845-46, a question Russia would keep asking. Between 1852 and 1870 he wrote My Past and Thoughts, an autobiography critics rank among the finest in Russian letters. He died on 21 January 1870, his ideas outliving him in soil and revolution.
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