Landmarks Revisited

The Vekhi Symposium One Hundred Years On

Robin Aizlewood, Ruth Coates (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

324 Seiten

2014
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-61811-286-6 (ISBN)

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The symposium entitled Vekhi, or Landmarks, is one of the most famous publications in Russian intellectual and political history. Its fame rests on the critique it offers of the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia. It was published in 1909, under the editorship of Mikhail Gershenzon, as a polemical response to the revolution of 1905, the failed outcome of which was deemed by all the Landmarks contributors to exemplify and illuminate fatal philosophical, political, and psychological flaws in the revolutionary intelligentsia that had sought it. Its fame persists until today not least because the volume has been deemed by many in Russia and the West to have proven prophetic in its prediction (and urgent warning) that the realisation of the intelligentsia’s platform would bring ruin upon Russia. More than any other text, its republication in 1991 symbolically heralded the end of the ideological hegemony of Marxist-Leninism in the Soviet Union.

Robin Aizlewood, University College London, UK Ruth Coates, Bristol University, UK

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.1.2014
Reihe/Serie	Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 238 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-61811-286-4 / 1618112864
ISBN-13	978-1-61811-286-6 / 9781618112866
Zustand	Neuware