Writers under the Tsars
Russian Writers and Society in the Nineteenth Century. By Ronald Hingley. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 195 pp. $12.95. This is the second, revised edition of a book, by an authority on Russian literature, which has been published in many languages, from Swedish to Japanese. There is no shortage of books on Tsarism or the backgroand to the revolutions of 1917. But in 10 years this book has established itself
as the standard introduction to the great Russian writers of last century — Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, ih« role of such shadowy figures as Belinsky and Herzen is examined; the class structure of the old order, so vital an element in the work of these writers, is scrutinised: and important distinctions are drawn between the major groups of revolutionaries, from nihilists and populists to Marxists- — NOEL HILLIARD.
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