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A Russian Philosophe Alexander Radishchev

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  1. Allen McConnell
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N1-XII
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  2. A Russian Aristocrat’s Youth

    • Allen McConnell
    Pages 1-16

  3. Leipzig University I

    • Allen McConnell
    Pages 17-29

  4. Leipzig University II

    • Allen McConnell
    Pages 30-40

  5. Return to Russia

    • Allen McConnell
    Pages 41-56

  7. The Journey

    • Allen McConnell
    Pages 71-86

  8. The Journey

    • Allen McConnell
    Pages 87-105

  9. Arrest and Trial

    • Allen McConnell
    Pages 106-122

  10. Journey to Ilimsk

    • Allen McConnell
    Pages 123-137

  11. Ilimsk

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    Pages 138-151

  12. Man and Immortality

    • Allen McConnell
    Pages 152-162

  13. Return to Russia

    • Allen McConnell
    Pages 163-176

  14. Return to Service

    • Allen McConnell
    Pages 177-191

  15. Epilogue: “In Radishchev’s Steps”

    • Allen McConnell
    Pages 192-209

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 210-228
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About this book

Alexander Radishchev's major work, A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow, first published in 1790, was the most scathing denunciation of serfdom and autocracy that had ever appeared in Russia. Its author was immediately arrested, tried for treason, and condemned to death, the sentence being later commuted to exile in Siberia. Catherine the Great, who had provided Radishchev with a schooling in despotism in the Corps des Pages and with an introduction to the Enlightenment at the University of Leipzig, saw in his book a gratuitous insult to herself as well as an attempt to incite a revolt that would bring him to power. Forgetting that many of its ideas were the same as those she had herself expressed earlier, she denounced it as the fruit of foreign abstract theories acting on an excitable, ambitious and resentful man. The Journey was effectively suppressed for more than a century. Any mention of Radishchev was discouraged by the censor for seventy years. A generation after Radishchev's death in 1802, Pushkin's biography of him was refused publication permission on the ground that the subject of it was forgotten and deserved to remain so.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Russian Philosophe Alexander Radishchev

  • Authors: Allen McConnell

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3375-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Netherlands 1964

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-015-2162-8Published: 01 January 1964

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-3375-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Topics: Philosophy, general

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