Alexander Herzen (1812–1870), a memoirist,
essayist, novelist, publisher, and editor, was one of the most
influential figures in Russia’s political, social, and economic
debates from the 1840s until his death. Among his most important
works are a novel, Who Is to Blame? (1846); a book of essays, From
the Other Shore (1850); and his autobiography, My Past and Thoughts
(1861).
Kathleen Parthé is a professor of Russian and
director of the Russian Studies Program at the University of
Rochester. She is the author of Russian Village Prose: The Radiant
Past (Northwestern, 1992) and Russia's Dangerous Texts: Politics
Between the Lines (2004).
Robert Harris is a lecturer in the Faculty of
Medieval and Modern Languages at New College, University of Oxford.
The strength of A Herzen Reader lies in allowing all Alexander Herzen's voices to speak for themselves, permitting new readers to draw their own conclusions about which was the man himself
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