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What Is to Be Done? by Chernyshevskii, N. G. (Nikolai Gavrilovich); Katz, Michael R. (Michael Ray), 1944-; Wagner, William G 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."--Joseph Frank, 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 conflic

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Author

Chernyshevskii, N. G. (Nikolai Gavrilovich); Katz, Michael R. (Michael Ray), 1944-; Wagner, William G

Publisher

Ithaca (N.Y.) ; London: Cornell University Press

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801417443

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.39 / 5 (1,194 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14