Book contents
- Chekhov in Context
- Chekhov in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Note on Texts, Dates, and Transliteration
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Life
- Part II Society
- Chapter 4 Class
- Chapter 5 Money
- Chapter 6 Politics
- Chapter 7 Peasants
- Chapter 8 The Woman Question
- Chapter 9 Sex
- Chapter 10 Social Activism
- Chapter 11 Environmentalism
- Chapter 12 Sakhalin Island
- Part III Culture
- Part IV Literature
- Part V Afterlives
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 6 - Politics
from Part II - Society
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2023
- Chekhov in Context
- Chekhov in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Note on Texts, Dates, and Transliteration
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Life
- Part II Society
- Chapter 4 Class
- Chapter 5 Money
- Chapter 6 Politics
- Chapter 7 Peasants
- Chapter 8 The Woman Question
- Chapter 9 Sex
- Chapter 10 Social Activism
- Chapter 11 Environmentalism
- Chapter 12 Sakhalin Island
- Part III Culture
- Part IV Literature
- Part V Afterlives
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Derek Offord surveys the clashing ideological movements building towards cataclysm in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century: the revolutionary currents (idealisms, socialisms, populisms, terrorisms) that flourished in the years leading up to the assassination of Alexander II in 1881, and the reactionary elements of conservative nationalism that gained ground under Alexander III. Offord considers Chekhov’s non-ideological but politically charged writing within this context.
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- Chekhov in Context , pp. 49 - 56Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023