[−]
  • Search
My Past and Thoughts : The Memoirs of Alexander HerzenBlog this item

Similar books

Cover of "Russian Thinkers"
Russian Thinkers
Cover of "The Coast of Utopia"
The Coast of Utopia
Cover of "Voyage"
Voyage
Cover of "Toward Another Shore"
Toward Another Shore
Cover of "Views from the Other Shore"
Views from the Other Shore

Book Description

Alexander Herzen's own brilliance and the extraordinary circumstances of his life combine to place his memoirs among the greatest works of the modern era. Born in 1812, the illegitimate son of a wealthy Russian landowner, he became one of the most important revolutionary and intellectual figures of his time: as theorist, polemicist, propagandist, and political actor. Fifty years after his death, Lenin revered him as the father of Russian revolutionary socialism. Tolstoy said he had never met another man "with so rare a combination of scintillating brilliance and depth." His monumental autobiography is an unparalleled record of his--and his century's--remarkable life.
Herzen's story of his privileged childhood among the Russian aristocracy is lit with the insight of a great novelist. With a trained historian's sense of the interaction of people and events, he limns the grand line of revolutionary development from the earliest stirrings of Russian radicalism throughthe tumultuous ideological debates of the international. His close friends and enemies--Marx, Wagner, Mill, Bakunin, Garibaldi, Kropotkin--are brought brilliantly alive. Dwight Macdonald's knowledgeable and fluent abridgment makes this great work readily available to the modern reader.

Book Details
English Books
Paperback 752 Pages
Edition: 1
ISBN-10: 0520042107
ISBN-13: 9780520042100
Publisher: University of California Press
Pub date: Apr 02, 1982
Dimensions: 21 cm x 14 cm x 4 cm Just how big is that?
Improve data of this book
Allowed tags <b> → bold, <i> → Italics

FAQ See all

How does the voting work?
Find a comment helpful / unhelpful? Cast your vote. Only one vote from each person will be counted. Every hour we gather all the votes, add them up, add some magic source, and there we have the new sorting for the comments on the page of this book!
I see mistakes in the book information. How can I fix it?

Under "Book details", there is a link labeled "Improve data of this book". You can use that form to send us the correct information.

Why do I sometimes see less people than from last time?
Under the aNobii logo is the location filter. The higher up you go, the more people you see.
Loading ...
The viewport has not loaded.