Herzen
Britishnoun
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Alexander Herzen was the only Russian socialist revolutionary for whom freedom was as important as socialism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
In the 20th century, Vladimir Lenin would laud Herzen for “raising the banner of revolution” against an oppressive czarist regime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
In the Russian original, Herzen recalled the “falsely kind gaze” of the chief of the “terrifying police” that was “outside and above the law and which could interfere into everything.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The Coast of Utopia was a massive trilogy about the 19th Century Russian liberal thinker, Alexander Herzen: coolly received at the National Theatre in London, it was a huge success in New York.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
Now the facts are that no one was of greater use to Herzen the arch-revolutionist and his thundering Kolokol, than Turgenev.
From Comrade Kropotkin by Victor Robinson
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