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Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism and the Narodniks. He was the dominant intellectual figure of the 1860s revolutionary democratic movement in Russia, despite spending much of his later life in exile to Siberia, an…
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culture · Russian writer and philosopher (1828–1889) · philosopher · journalist · novelist · writer · literary critic · economist · opinion journalist · also Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Tschernischevski, Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky, N. G. Chernyshevsky, Chernyshevsky
Born 12 July 1828 · Died 17 October 1889 · Q192331
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1889· 1 entry
Died 1889-10-17.
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1862· 2 entries
Was arrested and confined in the Fortress of St
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Chernyshevsky was sentenced to civil execution (mock execution), followed by penal servitude (1864–1872), and by exile to Vilyuisk, Siberia (1872–1883)
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1860· 1 entry
Which he believed marked a new period for "the great North American people" and that America would progress to heights "not attained since Jefferson's time
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1855· 1 entry
Chernyshevsky defended his master's dissertation, "The Aesthetic Relation of Art to Reality", which contributed for the development of materialist aesthetics in Russia
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1850· 1 entry
Chernyshevsky developed revolutionary, democratic, and materialist views
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1828· 1 entry
Born 1828-07-12.
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