A Herzen Reader

A striking example of this genre is the work of A. I. Volodin ^933-2004), which is essentially a composite of selected passages followed by tendentious interpretation in which he "reveals" the "dialectical materialism" ensconced in Herzen's outlook. See Aleksandr I. Volodin, Gertsen (Moscow: Mysl', i970).

See Aleksei T. Pavlov, Ot dvorianskoi revoliutsionnosti k revoliutsionnomu demokra- tizmu (ideinaia evoliutsiia Gertsena) (Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Moskovskogo universiteta, ^:977^ ^ll4.

See Ia. El'sberg, "Esteticheskie vzgliadi A. I. Gertsena," in A. I. Gertsen: 1812-1870, ed. I. G. Klabunovskii and B. P. Koz'min (Moscow: Gosudarstvennyi Literaturnyi muzei, i946), 22.

Ioann S. Novich (Fainshtein), Dukhovnaia drama Gertsena (Moscow: Khudozhe- stvennaia literatura, i937), i6.

See Zinaida P. Bazileva, "Kolokol" Gertsena (1857-1867 gg.) (Moscow: Gosudar- stvennoe Izdatel'stvo politicheskoi Literatury, i949), 289. Another such work examines the atheistic outlook of Herzen and Ogaryov in The Bell, focusing on their discussion of freedom of conscience, and their critiques of religion, clericalism, and the social posi­tion of the Orthodox church. This brief study, too, is composed largely of a patchwork of excerpts and extended passages from the two authors, and begins and ends with Lenin's words. See Valentina S. Panova, "Kolokol" Gertsena i Ogar'eva ob ateizme, religii I tserkvi (Moscow: Mysl', i983).

See "Kratkaia bibliografiia sochinenii Gertsena i literatury o nem," in A. I. Gertsen: Seminarii, by M. I. Gillel'son, E. N. Dryzhakova, and M. K. Perkal' (Moscow: Pros- veshchenie, i965), ii9-2i.

See Liudmila E. Tatarinova, A. I. Gertsen (Moscow: Mysl', i980), 86-i8i.

See Zinaida V. Smirnova, Sotsial'naia filosofiia A. I. Gertsena (Moscow: Nauka, i973). Indicative of many such studies, the chronological chapters of Smirnova's work focus largely on the development of Herzen's thought in the i830s and i840s, culminat­ing in his reactions to the i848 revolutions.

Natal'ia M. Pirumova, Istoricheskie vzgliady A. I. Gertsena (Moscow: Gosudar- stvennoe Izdatel'stvo polit. Lit-y, i956).

A. I. Gertsen, Sobranie Sochinenii v tridtsati tomakh (Moscow: Izdatel'stvo akademii nauk SSSR, i954-66). The work (herein: Sobranie sochinenii) comprises 33 separate books, plus index.

Letopis' zhizni i tvorchestva A. I. Gertsena (1812-1870), vols. i-5 (Moscow: Nauka, i974-90).

Natan Ia. Eidel'man, Gertsen protiv samoderzhaviia: Sekretnaia istoriia Rossii XVIII- XIX vekov i Vol'naia russkaia pechat' (Moscow: Mysl', i973). See also the collection of Eidelman's essays on the issue of freedom of speech and Herzen's efforts with the Free Russian Press: N. Ia. Eidel'man, Svobodnoe slovo Gertsena (Moscow: Editorial URSS, i999). This volume contains several essays on The Bell, including "Anonymous Corre­spondents of Kolokol," originally published as "Anonimnye korrespondenty 'Kolokola' " in Problemy izucheniia Gertsena (Moscow: ANSSSR, ^63), 25^79; and "Secret Corre­spondents of Polestar," originally published as Tainye korrespondenty "Poliarnoi zvezdy" (Moscow: Mysl', i966).

Herzen could only find one justification for the pain of his self-imposed exile, and this was the absolute necessity to live in an environment of free speech and the impera­tive to fight for those who lacked it. See S togo berega, in Sobranie sochinenii, 6:i3-i4. Not long after his arrival in London, Herzen realized his most momentous achievement, the establishment of his press. One of its first products was a small pamphlet addressed to his Russian brethren, a tiny manifesto declaring Herzen's deepest tenets and values. At the heart of it lies Herzen's maxim: "Without freedom of speech, man is not free." "Vol'noe russkoe knigopechatanie v Londone: Brat'iam na Rusi" (February i853), Doc. 2 in this collection.