Arc of utopia : the beautiful story of the Russian Revolution / Lesley Chamberlain.

Author
Chamberlain, Lesley [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • London, UK : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2017.
  • ©2017
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220 pages ; 24 cm

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    "The French Revolution of 1789 had grand humanitarian aims that would one day inspire the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Russians took the French revolutionary agenda and reinforced it with sturdy German philosophy to form a beautiful vision in which remnants of theology combined with the power of art as a force for change. The Arc of Utopia offers a fresh look at the German philosophical origins of the Russian Revolution. Lesley Chamberlain relates how the influential German philosophers Kant, Schiller and Hegel were dazzled by contemporary events in Paris, and how art and philosophy exploded on the streets of Russia, with a long-repressed people uniquely reinventing the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity. Some of the greatest names of nineteenth-century Russia, from Alexander Herzen to Mikhail Bakunin, Ivan Turgenev to Fyodor Dostoevsky, defined their visions for Russia in relation to the German enthusiasm for revolutionary France. Published to tie in with the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, The Arc of Utopia provides an original view of the Revolution that links the final upheaval of October 1917 with an astonishing period in art, street drama and poetry."--Jacket
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-215) and index.
    Contents
    • Author's Note
    • Glossary of Names
    • Introduction : The Arc of Utopia
    • The Wisest Man
    • Good Men, Drama and Dialectic
    • Excitement in the Seminary
    • Reason, Fashion and Romance among the Russians
    • Philosophy as Dream-history
    • Bakunin on Fire
    • A Land of Hamlets and Don Quixotes
    • The Chattering Classes and the Moment of Grace
    • 'The Triumph of the Movement which is Dear to Me'
    • 'We Want All to be Fulfilled at Once' : The Great Uprising of Art and Creativity
    • Afterword : 'The Unity of Great Ideas and Strong Feelings'
    • A Note on Further Reading.
    ISBN
    • 9781780238524 ((hardcover))
    • 1780238525 ((hardcover))
    OCLC
    1005493380
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