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CHERNYSHEVSKII, Nikolai Gavrilovich (1828-1889). 'Chto delat?' gl. 1-4 [What is to be Done? Parts 1-4 (all published)], extracted from Sovremennik, vols 95 and 96. [St Petersburg: Sovremennik, 1862-1863.]
The first appearance of 'the first and most influential of a long succession of tendentious radical novels' in Russian literature (Mirsky, p.225); it was an inspiration for the eventual Communist Revolution as potent as Marx's Capital. RBH and ABPC record no copy of this banned publication having been offered at auction. Chernyshevskii, then editor of Sovremennik, wrote 'What is to be Done?' while imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress; prison authorities and censors saw in it a love story only, and allowed publication. But soon these issues of Sovremennik were banned, and the work circulated widely in manuscript copies. The revolutionary Peter Kropotkin remarked that 'for the Russian youth of the time [the book] was a revelation, became a program and a kind of flag to follow' (Kropotkin, pp.306-7). "What is to be Done?' influenced countless revolutionaries, including Lenin, who read it numerous times, and used the same title for one of his pamphlets (1902); Lenin acknowledged that the novel's fanatic hero, Rakhmetov, 'had been a model for his own development' (Sixsmith). Tolstoy also used the title for a novella detailing his view of moral responsibility (1886); and Dostoevsky was prompted to write his Notes from the Underground (1864) to counter Chernychevskii's ideas. Chernychevskii himself had been prompted to write 'What is to be Done?' in part by Turgenev's Fathers and Sons (1862). In 1866, a few years after this publication, Alexander II decreed that Sovremennik, founded by Pushkin in 1836, was to be shut down. Kropotkin, Idealy i deistvitel'nost v russkoi literature (1907); Sixsmith, Russia, p.240.
Three parts bound in one volume, octavo (233 x 151mm). Comprising pp.5-142, 375-526, and 55-197 [the complete text for this work] from 3 issues of Sovremennik. (Damp-staining; spotting.) Contemporary Russian green quarter leather and green marbled boards, flat spine ruled in blind and gilt and titled directly in gilt (extremities rubbed; sides scuffed; hinges starting; traces of red seal wax on the endpapers). Provenance: Nikolai Pavlov (ownership signature, dated 1867; binding).
The first appearance of 'the first and most influential of a long succession of tendentious radical novels' in Russian literature (Mirsky, p.225); it was an inspiration for the eventual Communist Revolution as potent as Marx's Capital. RBH and ABPC record no copy of this banned publication having been offered at auction. Chernyshevskii, then editor of Sovremennik, wrote 'What is to be Done?' while imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress; prison authorities and censors saw in it a love story only, and allowed publication. But soon these issues of Sovremennik were banned, and the work circulated widely in manuscript copies. The revolutionary Peter Kropotkin remarked that 'for the Russian youth of the time [the book] was a revelation, became a program and a kind of flag to follow' (Kropotkin, pp.306-7). "What is to be Done?' influenced countless revolutionaries, including Lenin, who read it numerous times, and used the same title for one of his pamphlets (1902); Lenin acknowledged that the novel's fanatic hero, Rakhmetov, 'had been a model for his own development' (Sixsmith). Tolstoy also used the title for a novella detailing his view of moral responsibility (1886); and Dostoevsky was prompted to write his Notes from the Underground (1864) to counter Chernychevskii's ideas. Chernychevskii himself had been prompted to write 'What is to be Done?' in part by Turgenev's Fathers and Sons (1862). In 1866, a few years after this publication, Alexander II decreed that Sovremennik, founded by Pushkin in 1836, was to be shut down. Kropotkin, Idealy i deistvitel'nost v russkoi literature (1907); Sixsmith, Russia, p.240.
Three parts bound in one volume, octavo (233 x 151mm). Comprising pp.5-142, 375-526, and 55-197 [the complete text for this work] from 3 issues of Sovremennik. (Damp-staining; spotting.) Contemporary Russian green quarter leather and green marbled boards, flat spine ruled in blind and gilt and titled directly in gilt (extremities rubbed; sides scuffed; hinges starting; traces of red seal wax on the endpapers). Provenance: Nikolai Pavlov (ownership signature, dated 1867; binding).
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