Vital Question, or, What is to be Done?
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- Translators' Preface
- Introduction: Chapter 01
- Introduction: Chapter 02
- Introduction: Chapter 03
- Part I: Chapter 01a
- Part I: Chapter 01b
- Part I: Chapter 02
- Part I: Chapter 03
- Part I: Chapter 04
- Part I: Chapter 05
- Part I: Chapter 06
- Part I: Chapter 07
- Part I: Chapter 08
- Part I: Chapter 09
- Part II: Chapter 01
- Part II: Chapter 02
- Part II: Chapter 03
- Part II: Chapter 04
- Part II: Chapter 05
- Part II: Chapter 06
- Part II: Chapter 07
- Part II: Chapter 08
- Part II: Chapter 09
- Part II: Chapter 10
- Part II: Chapter 11
- Part II: Chapter 12
- Part II: Chapter 13
- Part II: Chapter 14
- Part II: Chapter 15
- Part II: Chapter 16
- Part II: Chapter 17
- Part II: Chapter 18
- Part II: Chapter 19
- Part II: Chapter 20
- Part II: Chapter 21
- Part II: Chapter 22
- Part II: Chapter 23
- Part II: Chapter 24
- Part III: Chapter 01
- Part III: Chapter 02
- Part III: Chapter 03
- Part III: Chapter 04a
- Part III: Chapter 04b
- Part III: Chapter 05
- Part III: Chapter 06
- Part III: Chapter 07
- Part III: Chapter 08
- Part III: Chapter 09
- Part III: Chapter 10
- Part III: Chapter 11
- Part III: Chapter 12
- Part III: Chapter 13
- Part III: Chapter 14
- Part III: Chapter 15
- Part III: Chapter 16
- Part III: Chapter 17
- Part III: Chapter 18
- Part III: Chapter 19
- Part III: Chapter 20
- Part III: Chapter 21
- Part III: Chapter 22
- Part III: Chapter 23
- Part III: Chapter 24
- Part III: Chapter 25
- Part III: Chapter 26
- Part III: Chapters 27-28
- Part III: Chapter 29a
- Part III: Chapter 29b
- Part III: Chapter 29c
- Part III: Chapter 30a
- Part III: Chapter 30b
- Part III: Chapter 31
- Part IV: Chapter 01a
- Part IV: Chapter 01b
- Part IV: Chapter 02
- Part IV: Chapter 03
- Part IV: Chapter 04
- Part IV: Chapter 05
- Part IV: Chapter 06
- Part IV: Chapter 07
- Part IV: Chapter 08
- Part IV: Chapter 09
- Part IV: Chapter 10
- Part IV: Chapter 11
- Part IV: Chapter 12
- Part IV: Chapter 13
- Part IV: Chapter 14
- Part IV: Chapter 15a
- Part IV: Chapter 15b
- Part IV: Chapter 15c
- Part IV: Chapter 16
- Part IV: Chapter 17
- Part V, Chapter 01-03
- Part V, Chapter 04-05
- Part V, Chapter 06-07
- Part V, Chapter 08-11
- Part V, Chapter 12-16
- Part V, Chapter 17-18
- Part V, Chapter 19-22
- Part V, Chapter 23a
- Part V, Chapter 23b, Part VI
Despised by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, What Is To Be Done? is a fascinating, sympathetic story of idealistic revolutionaries in mid-nineteenth century tsarist Russia; translator Nathan Haskell Dole affirms in his preface his conviction that it is a thriller that no one can put down once s/he begins it. Its variegated cast of characters includes Vera Pavlovna, a boldly independent woman in a time of great oppression, and the inspirational radical Rakhmetov. The author wrote the novel from the depths of the infamous Peter & Paul Fortress of St. Petersburg, the Abu Ghraib of tsarist Russia, and later spent many years of exile in Siberia. Dostoyevsky disparaged Chernyshevsky's novel repeatedly, most notably in The Possessed (as sort of bedside reading material for some of the more despicable characters) and in Notes From Underground. Chernyshevsky's legacy, however, was in inspiring an ascetic, self-abnegating radicalism in later revolutionaries and activists. - Summary by Expatriate
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