translated by Constance Garnett ; revised by Humphrey Higgins ; introduction by Isaiah Berlin ; abridged, with a preface and notes, by Dwight Macdonald.
Nursery and university (1812-1834). Childhood ; Youth ; Political awakening ; Nick and the Sparrow Hills ; My father ; The universsity ; After the university ; Appendix : A. Polezhayev -- Prison and exile (1834-1838). Ogarev's arrest ; My arrest ; Imprisonment ; Krutitsky Barracks ; Investigation and sentence ; Perm ; Vyatka ; Misgovernment in Siberis ; Appendix : Alexander Lavrentevich Vitberg ; The Tsarevich's visit ; The beginning of my life at Vladimir -- Moscow, Petersburg and Novgorod (1840-1847). Return to Moscow and intellectual debate ; Petersburg and the second banishment ; Councillor at Novgorod ; Our friends ; Our "opponents" ; To Petersburg for a passport -- Paris, Italy, Paris (1847-1852). The journey ; The honeymoon of the republic ; Western European Arabesques, I : The dream, The reality ; The Revolution of 1848 in France ; In Geneva with the exiles of 1848 ; Western European Arabesques, II : A lament, Postscript on Petit bourgeois ; Money and the police ; P.-J. Proudhon ; Appendix : second thoughts on the woman question -- England (1852-1858). The fogs of London ; The emigrants in London ; John Stuart Mill and his book on liberty ; German emigrants ; Robert Owen -- The free Russian press and The Bell (1858-1862). Apogee and perigee ; The younger emigrants : the common fund ; M. Bakunin and the cause of Poland -- The later years (1860-1868). Fragments : Swiss views, Beyond the Alps, Zu Deutsch, Living Flowers : the last of the Mohican squaws, The flowers of Minerva, Venezia la bella, Byzantium, France, Germany and America ; The superfluous and the jaundiced (1860) ; Bazarov once more (1868) : Letter 1, Letter 2 ; A relevant chrestomathy from the later years -- Appendix : Marx v. Herzen.
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The memoir of Russian writer and thinker Alexander Herzen (1812-1870). Herzen is known as the "father of Russian socialism". With his writings, many composed while exiled in London, he attempted to influence the situation in Russia, contributing to a political climate that lead to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. The illegitimate son of a wealthy Russian landowner, he became one of the most important revolutionary and intellectual figures of his time: as theorist, polemicist, propagandist, and political actor. Fifty years after his death, Lenin revered him as the father of Russian revolutionary socialism. Tolstoy said he had never met another man "with so rare a combination of scintillating brilliance and depth." His story of his privileged childhood among the Russian aristocracy is lit with the insight of a great novelist.