{"product_id":"what-is-to-be-done-paperback-softback-9780801495472","title":"What Is to Be Done? (Paperback \/ softback) 9780801495472","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWhat Is to Be Done?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNikolai Chernyshevsky (Author), Michael R. Katz (Translated by), William G. Wagner (Notes by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801495472\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 January 1989\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e464 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 3 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo work in modern literature, with the possible exception of \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e, can compete with \u003ci\u003eWhat Is to Be Done?\u003c\/i\u003e in its effect on human lives and its power to make history. For Chernyshevsky's novel, far more than Marx's \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e, supplied the emotional dynamic that eventually went to make the Russian Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e (The Southern Review) \u003cp\u003eIn the Russian revolutionary movement, no literary work can compare in importance with Chernyshevsky's \u003ci\u003eWhat Is to Be Done?\u003c\/i\u003e.... Katz and Wagner have provided us with a version that is worthy of the novel's importance. Katz's translation is faithful to the original, yet cast in words that bring Chernyshevsky's meaning alive to modern readers.... Wagner, in turn, provides abundant notes, explaining obscure references, making connections between parts of the novel that could easily be missed on first reading, and alerting the reader to those many passages where Chernyshevksy hinted at what he could not say outright.\u003c\/p\u003e (Russian History)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNo work in modern literature, with the possible exception of \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e, can compete with \u003ci\u003eWhat Is to Be Done?\u003c\/i\u003e in its effect on human lives and its power to make history. For Chernyshevsky's novel, far more than Marx's Capital, supplied the emotional dynamic that eventually went to make the Russian Revolution.\u003c\/b\u003e―\u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlmost from the moment of its publication in 1863, Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Is to Be Done?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, 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. Lenin himself called Chernyshevsky \"the greatest and most talented representative of socialism before Marx\"; and the controversy surrounding \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Is to Be Done?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e exacerbated the conflicts that eventually led to the Russian Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMichael R. Katz's readable and compelling translation is now the definitive unabridged English-language version, brilliantly capturing the extraordinary qualities of the original. William G. Wagner has provided full annotations to Chernyshevsky's allusions and references and to the sources of his ideas, and has appended a critical bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn introduction by Katz and Wagner places the novel in the context of nineteenth-century Russian social, political, and intellectual history and literature, and explores its importance for several generations of Russian radicals.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52653111673112,"sku":"9780801495472","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/what-is-to-be-done-paperback-softback-9780801495472","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}