Doubt, Atheism, and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Intelligentsia.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (316 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction -- Part 1. Doubt -- 1 Forbidden Fruit: The Wisdom Lovers -- 2 Providence and Doubt: Alexander Herzen, Nikolai Ogarev, and Their Friends -- Part 2. Atheism -- 3 Atheists of 1849: Katenev's Tobacco Store Circle and Petrashevsky's "Fridays" -- 4 Atheism as the Predicate for Salvation: Nikolai Chernyshevsky and Nikolai Dobroliubov -- Part 3. Two Modes of Living without God -- 5 Atheism and Apocalypse: Revolutionariesin the Provinces, 1856-1863 -- 6 Doubt after Atheism: Dmitrii Pisarev -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.