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Nikolay Chernyshevsky

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praised Chernyshevsky: "..he approached all the political events of his times in a revolutionary spirit and was able to exercise a revolutionary influence by advocating, in spite of all the barriers and obstacles placed in his way by the censorship, the idea of a peasant revolution, the idea of the
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In 1855, Chernyshevsky defended his master's dissertation, "The Aesthetic Relation of Art to Reality", which contributed for the development of materialist aesthetics in Russia. Chernyshevsky believed that "What is of general interest in life -- that is the content of art" and that art should be a
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as the means of society's forward movement and advocated for the interests of the working people. In his view, the masses were the chief maker of history. He is reputed to have used the phrase “the worse the better”, to indicate that the worse the social conditions became for the poor, the more
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in 1850, Chernyshevsky developed revolutionary, democratic, and materialist views. From 1851 to 1853, he taught Russian language and literature at the Saratov Gymnasium. He openly expressed his beliefs to students, some of whom later became revolutionaries. From 1853 to 1862, he lived in
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in his habits and ruthlessly disciplined, to the point of sleeping on a bed of nails and eating only raw steak in order to build strength for the Revolution. Among those who have referenced the novel include Lenin, who wrote a
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time." He praised these developments: "The good repute of the North American nation is important for all nations with the rapidly growing significance of the North American states in the life of all humanity."
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where he learned English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Greek and Old Slavonic. It was there that he gained a love of literature, and also there that he became an
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17 October] 1889) was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a
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in 1860, which he believed marked a new period for "the great North American people" and that America would progress to heights "not attained since
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inclined they would be to launch a revolution (though he did not originate the phrase, which predates his birth; for example, in an 1814 letter
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Scanlan, James P. (1985). "Nikolaj Chernyshevsky and the Philosophy of Realism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Aesthetics".
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was enraged by what he saw as the simplicity of the political and psychological ideas expressed in the book, and wrote
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Chernyshevsky believed that American democracy was the best aspect of American life. He welcomed the election of
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The novel was an inspiration to many later Russian revolutionaries, who sought to emulate the novel's hero
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has the protagonist, Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, study Chernyshevsky and write the critical biography
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Jane Missner Basrstow Dostoevsky Versus Chernyshevsky in College Literature V, 1. Winter 1978.
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There are those arguing, in the words of Professor Joseph Frank, that “Chernyshevsky’s novel
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studied Chernyshevsky's works and called him a "great Russian scholar and critic".
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Chernyshevsky and the Age of Realism: A Study in the Semiotics of Behavior
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Hecht, David (1945). "Chernyshevsky and American Influence on Russia".
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of the novel. The publication of this work caused a literary scandal.
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struggle of the masses for the overthrow of all the old authorities”
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used it when discussing the lead-up to the American revolution).
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in 1828, and stayed there until 1846. He graduated at the local
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Critique of Philosophical Prejudices Against Communal Ownership
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Through the Russian Prism: Essays on Literature and Culture
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Russian revolutionary and head of the Soviet government
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Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
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12 July] 1828 – 29 October [
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Russian writer and nihilist philosopher (1828–1889)
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Index

Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Chernyshevsky (disambiguation)

Saratov
Saratov Governorate
Russian Empire
Saratov
Russian Empire
What Is to Be Done?
19th-century philosophy
Russian philosophy
School
Russian nihilism
Utopian socialism
Narodism
Russian literature
materialism
positivism
aesthetics
Rational egoism

O.S.
O.S.
utopian socialist
Russian nihilism
Narodniks
Siberia
Karl Marx
Georgi Plekhanov
Vladimir Lenin

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