Roots of Revolution : A History of the Populist and Socialist Movements in 19th Century Russia

by Venturi, Franco; Haskell, Francis

• ISBN13: 9781842122532
• ISBN10: 1842122533
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc

Summary

In 1972, Venturi wrote a comprehensive survey of the latest Russian and Western studies on the subject which is reproduced in full here. As Isaiah Berlin remarks in his Introduction, 'Professor Venturi's work on the Russian Populist movement is the fullest and most authoritative account in any language of a decisive phase in the history of the Russian revolutionary movement.' Taking as his starting date the 1848 revolution which crystallized Populist ideology in the minds of Herzen, (the true founder of Populism) Bakunin, Chernyshevsky and other intellectuals, Venturi examines Russia's internal and external problems and the ideals and beliefs of her subjects in so far as they touch on the formation and development of populism. The core of the book concentrates on an account of the conspiracies and struggles through which Populism expressed itself.The book ends on March 1st 1881 with the assassination of Alexander II by the Executive Committee of Narodnaya Volya.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Revised author's introduction, Russian Populism	p. xxxi
Preface	p. ci
Herzen	p. 1
Bakunin	p. 36
The Peasant Problem and Socialism in the 'Thirties and 'Forties	p. 63
The Kolokol	p. 90
N. G. Chernyshevsky	p. 129
The Intellectual Movement of the 'Sixties: Dobrolyubov and Shchapov	p. 187
The Peasant Movement	p. 204
The Student Movement	p. 220
The First Groups	p. 232
The First Zemlya I Volya	p. 253
Young Russia	p. 285
The Kazan Conspiracy	p. 303
Populism and Nihilism	p. 316
Ishutin's 'Organization' and Karakozov	p. 331
Nechaev	p. 354
Petr Nikitich Tkachev	p. 389
Bakunin and Lavrov	p. 429
The Chaikovskists and the Movement 'To Go To The People'	p. 469
The Working Class Movement	p. 507
Zemlya I Volya	p. 558
Narodnaya Volya	p. 633
1st March 1881	p. 709
Notes	p. 721
Bibliographical Notes	p. 835
Chronological Table	p. 837
Index	p. 841
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