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My Past and Thoughts

My Past and Thoughts
Alexander Herzen Original title Былое и думы (Russian, 1868)

My Past and Thoughts is an extensive autobiography by Alexander Herzen, which he started in the early 1850s and continued to expand and revise throughout his later life. Serialized in Polyarnaya Zvezda, the book in its full form came out as a separate edition after its author's death. In Herzen's lifetime the major parts of the book were translated into English , German and French . Providing the panoramic view on the social and political life in Russian Empire as well as the European West of the mid-19th century, this seminal, even if in many ways controversial, work is considered to be the classic of Russian memoirist literature.


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