Author: Gertsen, A I [ Aleksandr Ivanovich ] & Novicha, , I S & Shtraikha, S IA [ editors ]
Title: Byloe I Dumy
Description: Ogiz - Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Khudozhestvenoi Literatyry, Leningrad, 1946, reprint. Cloth spined boards, G. 888pp, b/w frontis, 8pp b/w plates, pages somewhat tanned, boards rather rubbed. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ The biography of Alexander Ivanovich Herzen [ 1812 - 1870 ] the Russian writer and thinker, known as the 'father of Russian socialism, & as one of the main fathers of agrarian populism in Russia. The work - 'My Past & Thoughts' was re-written many tmes in Hertzen's later life & it provides a panoramic view on the social & political life in Russian Empire as well as the European West of the mid-19th century.

Keywords: biography, russian history, socialism