There is a certain basis of truth in the fear that the Russian government is beginning to have of communism, for communism is Tsarist autocracy turned upside down.
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If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there.
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There are those who prefer to get away inwardly, some with the help of a powerful imagination and an ability to abstract themselves from their surroundings…some with the help of opium or alcohol… I prefer shifting my whole body to shifting my brain, and going round the world to letting my head go round.
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Birth: | 6th April, 1812 |
Death: | 21st January, 1870 |
Nationality: | Russian |
Profession: | Writer |
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was a Russian pro-Western writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism. He is held responsible for creating a political climate leading to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. His autobiography My Past and Thoughts, written with grace, energy, and ease, is often considered the best specimen of that genre in Russian literature. He also published the important social novel Who is to Blame?. In 1852, he left Geneva for London, where he settled for many years. He promoted socialism and individualism, arguing that the full flowering of the individual could best be realized in a socialist order. In 1864, he returned to Geneva, and after some time went to Paris, where he died in 1870 of tuberculosis complications. Originally buried in Paris, his remains were taken to Nice.
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