Revisiting Russian Radicals

Andrew M. Drozd is associate professor of Russian at the University of Alabama.Brendan G. Mooney is Fellow at the Havighurst Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and visiting assistant professor of Russian at Miami University of Ohio.

• Foreword Christopher ElyIntroduction: Russian Radicals Revisited Andrew M. DrozdChapter 1: Nikolai Dobrolyubov’s Social and Political Theory Revisited Alexey VdovinChapter 2: Rakhmetov and Reading in Chernyshevsky’s What Is to Be Done? Andrew M. DrozdChapter 3: New People as Others: Race and Empire in Nikolai Chernyshevsky’s What Is to Be Done? Valeria SobolChapter 4: Who Can Claim the “Heritage of Serfdom?”: On the Racial Representation of Radical Heroes in Russian Literature of the 1860s–1870s Lindsay CeballosChapter 5: Dmitry Pisarev: Nihilism, Darwinism, and Man’s Place in Nature Brendan G. MooneyChapter 6: The History of a Plot: Nikolai Uspensky and the Representation of the Narod in Russian Fiction Kirill ZubkovChapter 7: “The Expansion of Western Civilization”: Aleksandr Pypin on Pan-Slavism and Czech Nationalism Anastasia WilliamsChapter 8: The Napoleonic Myth in Saltykov-Shchedrin’s The History of a Town and The Pompadours Charles L. ByrdChapter 9: Peacocks and Crows: The Populist Discourse on Progress and Individual Happiness in the Works of Ivan Kushchevsky and Andrei Osipovich-Novodvorsky Victoria ThorstenssonChapter 10: Reconstructing the Radical Mind: Bakunin’s Texts and Their Anarchist Legacy James GoodwinAbout the Contributors

This excellent collection of essays not only revisits, but also rethinks, revises, and rediscovers the radical critics of mid-nineteenth-century Russian literature. It includes provocative studies of familiar figures (Dobrolyubov, Chernyshevsky, and Pisarev), as well as new work on lesser-known critics (Kushchevsky, Osipovich-Novodvorsky, and others). It is both an illuminating and refreshing read…