A Herzen Reader presents in English for the first time one hundred essays and editorials by the radical Russian thinker Alexander Herzen (1812-1870). Herzen wrote most of these pieces for The Bell , a revolutionary newspaper he launched with the poet Nikolai Ogaryov in London in 1857. Smugglers secr[...]
Born in 1812, the illegitimate son of a wealthy Russian landowner, Alexander Herzen became one of the most important revolutionary and intellectual figures of his time; and fifty years after his death Lenin pronounced him 'the father of Russian socialism'. In this memoir, he tells his story with the[...]