Kropotkin, amongst other things, a Russian writer, writes about Russians, who were, amongst other things, writers. A literary love-in which, if it wasn't for the radical elements, would read like a Guardian book review. *♫
Introduction by George Woodcock
Believing that the best minds of Russia chose literature to express their conceptions of national life, Kropotkin wrote this literary history as a celebration. Almost every poet and prose-writer of any significance is discussed - Pushkin, Lermontoff, Gogol, Turguenev, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky.
