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Herzen's From The Other Shore

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Francis B. Randall
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Alexander Herzen's most influential writings were the columns in the journals he edited during his exile in London in the 1850s and 1860s, Poliarnaia Zvezdaand Kolokol, which played so distinct a part in inducing members of the Russian government to prepare the emancipation of 48,000,000 serfs and the other “Great Reforms” and in persuading so much of literate Russian society to accept them. By common consent, Herzen's autobiography, My Past and Thoughts,was his great contribution to the literature of Russia and the world. Only after these does one mention his sequence of essays on the revolutions of 1848, From the Other Shore.

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Slavic Review , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , March 1968 , pp. 91 - 101
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1968

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References

1 Page references in the text of this article are to the Russian text of S togo berega as printed in its most available form, in A. I. Gertsen, Sobranie sochineniia v tridtsati tomakh, VI (Moscow, 1955), 5-142.

2 When the speakers meet again in a later dialogue-essay, there is a reference to their previous meeting aboard ship in the Mediterranean between Genoa and Civita Vecchia. However, this appears to add nothing to any understanding of the passage under discussion.

3 T. S. Eliot in such early poems as “Sweeney Among the Nightingales” and James Joyce in Ulysses are among the examples that come readily to mind.