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What Is to Be Done? by Chernyshevsky, Nikolai ;Katz, Michael R. is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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No work in modern literature, with the possible exception of Uncle Tom's Cabin , can compete with What Is to Be Done? in its effect on human lives and its power to make history. For Chernyshevsky's novel, far more than Marx's Capital, supplied the emotional dynamic that eventually went to make the Russian Revolution. ― The Southern Review Almost from the moment of its publication in 1863, Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel, What Is to Be Done? , had a profound impact on the course of Russian literature and politics. The idealized image it offered of dedicated and self-sacrificing intellectuals transforming society by means of scientific knowledge served as a model of inspiration for Russia's revolutionary intelligentsia. On the one hand, the novel's condemnation of moderate reform helped to bring about the irrevocable break between radical intellectuals and liberal reformers; on the other, Chernyshevsky's socialist vision polarized conservatives' opposition to institutional reform. Lenin himself called Chernyshevsky "the greatest and most talented representative of socialism before Marx"; and the controversy surrounding What Is to Be Done? exacerbated the conflicts that eventu
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- Author
- Chernyshevsky, Nikolai ;Katz, Michael R.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801495472
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.39 / 5 (1,194 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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