What Is to Be Done? (Revised)

Title: What Is to Be Done? (Revised) Author: Nikolai Chernyshevsky ISBN: 9780801495472 Publisher: Cornell University Press Published: 1989 Binding: Book Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Fiction 1434104 Publisher Description: Almost from the moment of its publication in 1863, Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel, What Is to Be Done?, had a profound impact on the course of Russian literature and politics. The idealized image it offered of dedicated and self-sacrificing intellectuals transforming society by means of scientific knowledge served as a model of inspiration for Russia's revolutionary intelligentsia. On the one hand, the novel's condemnation of moderate reform helped to bring about the irrevocable break between radical intellectuals and liberal reformers; on the other, Chernyshevsky's socialist vision polarized conservatives' opposition to institutional reform. L