A Herzen Reader

by Alexander Herzen

A Herzen Reader presents in English for the first time one hundred essays and editorials by the radical Russian thinker Alexander Herzen (1812-1870). Herzen wrote most of these pieces for The Bell, a revolutionary newspaper he launched with the poet Nikolai Ogaryov in London in 1857. Smugglers secretly carried copies of The Bell into Russia, where it influenced debates over the emancipation of the serfs and other reforms. With...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810128470
• ISBN13: 9780810128477
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"