Author: Chernyshevskii, N G [ Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Gavrilovich ]
Title: Izbrannye Sochineniia
Description: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Khudozhestvennoi Literatuty, Moskva, 1950, 1st thus. Cloth spined boards, VG. xii+840pp, b/w frontis, boards unevenly sunned, edges rubbed especially at the corners, page margins a little tanned, but generally a nice copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Selected works of the Russian revolutionary democrat, philosopher and socialist Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky [ 1828 - 1889 ]. He was an influence on Lenin & was a founder of Narodism, Russian populism, and campaigned for the revolutionary overthrow of the autocracy and the creation of a socialist society based on the old peasant commune.

Keywords: socialism, russian history, communism, politics, political science, philsophy