W riting in 1948 in his one-man-band magazine Politics, in which he introduced some excerpts of Alexander Herzen's My Past and Thoughts, Dwight Macdonald observed sadly that this author and his ...

One of the things I used to enjoy the most was to browse in good book stores and buy a stock of books to read and add to my library. I cannot think of a more peaceful, pleasurable, and satisfying ...

FROM THE OTHER SHORE (208 pp.)—Alexander Herzen—George Brazlller ($3.75). Among the valuable enterprises the Soviets destroyed when they began to liquidate the bourgeoisie in 1917 was the ...

This year, Russia celebrates the 200th birthday of writer and political thinker Alexander Herzen. Are his dissident views still relevant given the current state of Russian politics? Alexander ...

In The New Criterion, Gary Saul Morson writes about ‘Russia’s most literate revolutionary,’ Alexander Herzen: Perhaps the best way to understand the psychology of radicals is to read ...

Once, employed in this lovely pursuit, I found waiting for me over the years, among the usual multitude of treasures the Oxford University Press edition of Alexander Herzen’s memoirs.

If you read only one book related to Russia this year, this should be it. Kelly’s magisterial intellectual biography of Alexander Herzen not only creates a complete image of the remarkable ...

The complicated, often conflicted, life of Alexander Herzen. It wasn’t easy for me to be an anti-war activist in the 1960s when I was also, like most students of Russian culture, an anti-Marxist. I ...

On Wednesday, June 20, the International Academic Conference “Alexander Herzen and the Historic Fate of Russia” opened at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Science. The event is ...

Here are musings from the likes of Petrarch, Sansovino, Hans Christian Andersen and Alexander Herzen. Andersen, “appropriately enough,” Mr. Romano writes, calls Venice “the city of a fairy ...