General Information

Author/Creator

Chamberlain, Lesley, author.

Language

English.

Published

London : Reaktion Books, 2017.

Physical Description

220 pages ; 25 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

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.

Subjects

Subject

Arts, Russian > 19th century.

Philosophy, German > 18th century.

Soviet Union > History > Revolution, 1917-1921 > Philosophy.

Soviet Union > History > Revolution, 1917-1921 > Art and the revolution.

Russia > Intellectual life > 1801-1917.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Lesley Chamberlain.

ISBN

9781780238524

1780238525

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	947/.0841 CHA		Reference	-

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