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Thematic sections have short introductions, and all poems and stories in this volume are presented side by side in English and Russian. Dostoyevsky becomes the third Russian author to get Chtenia's Bilingual Treatment. Including a series of short, lesser known, but highly significant works that show the traditional view of Dostoyevsky as a dour, intense, philosophical writer to be uneccesarily one-sided.
The monument was unveiled in Moscow in November of that year by the representative of the Moscow Soviet, with a tribute by the symbolist poet Vyacheslav Ivanov. Chernyshevsky was the son of a priest, as well as a materialist philosopher and socialist.
His utopian novel What Is to Be Done? What Is to Be Done? The fact that it had been smuggled out of prison gave it an added aura. This was the book that radicalised Lenin, long before he encountered Marx with whom Chernyshevsky had exchanged letters.
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As a homage to the old radical populist, Lenin titled his first major political work, written and published in , What Is to Be Done? Encountering Chernyshevsky at a public event, he shouted: What of the novel that was the subject of so much controversy?
Over the last 50 years I have made three attempts to read every single page, and all three attempts have failed. It is undoubtedly very radical on every front, especially gender equality and relations between men and women, but also on how to struggle, how to delineate the enemy and how to live by certain rules. Vladimir Nabokov loathed Chernyshevsky but found it impossible to ignore him.
Their jeers were partly born of jealousy, since the subject of their snobbery was extremely popular with the young, and born also, in the case of Turgenev, of a deep and ingrained political hostility to a writer who wanted a revolution to destroy the landed estates and distribute the land to the peasants. They were too young to appreciate its depth and vision, he retorted.
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They should wait till they were This was not possible in a world dominated by greed, hatred, war, egoism and class. That was why a social revolution was necessary. By the time the young Bolsheviks climbing Swiss mountains with Lenin were approaching 40, however, the revolution had already taken place. Erudite party progressives happily moved on to Mayakovsky. The classicism that was so deeply rooted in Lenin acted as a bulwark to seal him from the exciting new developments in art and literature that had both preceded and accompanied the revolution.
Lenin found it difficult to make any accommodations to modernism in Russia or elsewhere. In vain did the poets and artists tell him that they, too, loved Pushkin and Lermontov , but that they were also revolutionaries, challenging old art forms and producing something very different and new that was more in keeping with Bolshevism and the age of revolution.