Russian Thinkers
Summary
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.
Contents:
Introduction: 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 Intelligentsia
II. German Romanticism in Petersburg and Moscow
III. Vissarion Belinsky
IV. Alexander Herzen
- Russian Populism
- Tolstoy and Enlightenment
- Fathers and Children
Index
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