Nineteenth-Century Russia: Opposition to Autocracy

by Offord; Derek

• ISBN13: 9780582357679
• ISBN10: 0582357675
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-07-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This concise and accessible introduction to Russia in the nineteenth century, focuses particularly on the rise of radicalism. Derek Offord examines all the major schools of thought and looks in detail at the great thinkers and writers of the day, including Herzen, Chernyshevsky, Bakunin and Tolstoy. Also examined and set in context are the great 'events' in the history of Russian radicalism, from the Decembrist Revolt to the 'going to the people' in 1874.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

An introduction to the series	vii
Note on referencing system	viii
Note on dates, transliteration and use of Russian terms	ix
Foreword	xi
Map: Nineteenth-century Russia	xiii
PART ONE: THE HISTORICAL SETTING	1	(11)
The Political and Social Structure	1	(6)
Autocracy	1	(1)
Nobility and service	2	(1)
Serfdom and social backwardness	3	(4)
Cultural and Intellectual life	7	(5)
Westernization	7	(2)
The intelligentsia	9	(3)
PART TWO: PHASES OF OPPOSITION	12	(90)
The Age of Alexander I (1801--25)	12	(8)
The 'fine beginning of Alexander's days'	12	(1)
The Decembrist Revolt	13	(7)
The Age of Nicholas I (1825--55)	20	(24)
Russian culture in the age of Nicholas	20	(3)
Chaadaev's `Philosophical Letter'	23	(2)
Slavophilism	25	(4)
Liberal Westernizers	29	(4)
Belinsky	33	(4)
Herzen	37	(4)
The Petrashevtsy	41	(3)
Intellectual Revolt (1855--c. 1868)	44	(22)
The effects and aftermath of the Crimean War	44	(4)
Conservative nationalist thought in the 1850s and 1860s	48	(2)
Russian liberalism after the Crimean War	50	(5)
Radical thought: Chernyshevsky	55	(4)
Radical thought: Dobroliubov, Pisarev and the arts	59	(3)
Seditious literature and revolutionary groups in the 1860s	62	(4)
The Revolutionary Movement in the 1870s	66	(19)
Radical literature and thought, 1868--73	66	(2)
Lavrov	68	(2)
Bakunin	70	(2)
Tkachov	72	(3)
The `going to the people'	75	(3)
Land and Liberty	78	(3)
The People's Will, 1879--81	81	(4)
Opposition After 1881	85	(17)
Tolstoy	85	(3)
Plekhanov and the `Emancipation of Labour' Group	88	(4)
Revolutionary groups in the 1880s	92	(5)
Political movements in the 1890s	97	(5)
PART THREE: ASSESSMENT	102	(4)
PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS	106	(20)
Bibliography	126	(10)
Index	136