Volume 32, Number 20 · December 19, 1985
Man in the Middle
By Aileen Kelly
Who Is to Blame?
by Alexander Herzen, translated by Michael R. Katz
Cornell University Press, 293 pp., $9.95 (paper)
In the pantheon of the Russian Revolution, Alexander Herzen stands as one of Lenin's greatest predecessors—founder of the revolutionary populism that was the precursor of Russian Marxism, and editor of the émigré journal The Bell (Kolokol) which, smuggled into Russia in the late 1850s and early 1860s, helped to form the consciousness of the first generation of Russian revolutionaries.
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