Nineteenth-Century Russia

Derek Offord is Professor of History and Head of the Department of Russian Studies at the University of Bristol.

• An introduction to the series Vll Note on referencing system Vlll Note on dates, transliteration and use of Russian terms IX Foreword XI Map: Nineteenth-century Russia Xlll PART ONE: THE HISTORICAL SETTING 1 1. THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE 1 Autocracy 1 Nobility and service 2 Serfdom and social backwardness 3 2. CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE 7 Westernization 7 The intelligentsia 9 PART TWO: PHASES OF OPPOSITION 12 3. THE AGE OF ALEXANDER I (1801-25) 12 The 'fine beginning of Alexander's days' 12 The Decembrist Revolt 13 4. THE AGE OF NICHOLAS I (1825-55) 20 Russian culture in the age of Nicholas 20 Chaadaev's 'Philosophical Letter' 23 Slavophilism 25 Liberal Westernizers 29 Belinsky 33 Herzen 37 The Petrashevtsy 41 VI Contents 5. INTELLECTUAL REVOLT (1855-c. 1868) 44 The effects and aftermath of the Crimean War 44 Conservative nationalist thought in the 1850s and 1860s 48 Russian liberalism after the Crimean War 50 Radical thought: Chernyshevsky 55 Radical thought: Dobroliubov, Pisarev and the arts 59 Seditious literature and revolutionary groups in the 1860s 62 6. THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN THE 1870s 66 Radical literature and thought, 1868-73 66 Lavrov 68 Bakunin 70 Tkachov 72 The 'going to the people' 75 Land and Liberty 78 The People's Will, 1879-81 81 7. OPPOSITION AFTER 1881 85 Tolstoy 85 Plekhanov and the 'Emancipation of Labour' Group 88 Revolutionary groups in the 1880s 92 Political movements in the 1890s 97 PART THREE: ASSESSMENT 102 PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS 106 Bibliography 126 Index