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Nihilism was not a political movement. It was a youth culture. Nevertheless, it led to the politization and radicalization of the Russian youth. Many revolutionaries like Nikolai Tchaikovsky, Sophia Perovskaya, Sergei Kravchinski, Vera Zasulich and Sergey Nechayev were adept of Nihilist values. Nihilist political philosophy rejected all religious and political authority, social traditions, and traditional morality as standing in opposition to freedom, the ultimate ideal. In this sense, it can be seen as an extreme form of anarchism, but ...

The Nihilists were mainly children of the aristocracy. They had access to education, were influenced by liberal ideas from the West, and realised the great gap between the Russian semi-feudal society and countries like France, England and Prussia. They rejected all preconceived ideas and social norms, to which they referred as "the conventional lies of civilized mankind". A sharp sincerity was their trademark. The movement owes its name to the 1862 novel Fathers and Sons by the Russian author Ivan Turgenev, the main character of which ...

After more than a century of Westernization that began with the reign of Peter the Great (1682-1725), a Russian national consciousness evolved slowly throughout the early decades of the nineteenth century, reflected in the development of a uniquely Russian literature (by authors such as Aleksandr Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov). But despite this growing national identity, European thought continued to exert considerable influence on Russia’s dominant political and cultural institutions: Russian troops brought back Western id ...

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