UGS 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mikhail Petrashevsky, Dmitry Pisarev, Petrashevsky Circle
22 Oct 2016
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Wrote critique on russia - journey from st. petersburg to moscow. Got imprisoned and exiled to serbia from catherine the great. Spoke out against her policies and rule - dissenter. Predicted russia revolutions will happen if no reform was made to. Next generation after decembrists, most were university students. Believed political reform could not bring liberty. Literature was vehicle to spread ideas - men of 40s . Argued that russia had no meaningful past and likely to future. May make contribution if it followed peter the great western reform. Slavophiles said that russia had a great role, if it avoided westernization. Vissarion belinsky - letter to gogol - lashed out at gogal for abandoning progressive views he once held. Mikhail petrashevsky - man of ideas, not action. Tried to make plot of peasant revolution. Police found them, put them to exile. Petrashevsky said he was social reformer not revolutionary. Wanted socialism, but west socialist movements never worked out.
