This book deals with highly gifted and extremely courageous individuals who, because of their unusual fates, left their marks on the histories of both Russia and the West.

The book presents four Russian phi­losophers who fashioned their own indepen­dent philosophical systems. Among them are Alexander Herzen, the founder of "Russian socialism"; Petr Lavrov, close to Herzen in his understanding of Narodism (Populism); Mikhail Bakunin, responsible for creating the basic model of anti-autho­ritarianism; and Petr Kropotkin, the founder of anarcho-communism.

The reader will also become acquainted with the revolutionary activities of three very different revolutionaries (Hermann Lopatin, Sergei Stepniak-Kravchinsky, Ser­gei Nechayev) and with the extraordinary writer and liberal Westerner Ivan Turgenev. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Russia and the West: 19th Century / Россия и Запад. XIX век (Н. Пирумова, Б. Итенберг, В. Антонов)