{"product_id":"9781780238524","title":"Arc of Utopia: The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough Lenin and his fellow revolutionaries never called themselves Utopians—believing strictly in a science of revolution, they considered Utopians to be merely dreamers—they were enormously inspired by the grand humanitarian aims of the French Revolution of 1789. Taking up this French revolutionary agenda and reinforcing it with German philosophy, Russians formed a beautiful vision in which an imaginary theology blended with a premier role for art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArc of Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh look at these German philosophical origins of the Russian Revolution. In the book, Lesley Chamberlain explains how influential German philosophers like Kant, Schiller, and Hegel were dazzled by contemporary events in Paris, and how this led a century later to an explosion of art and philosophy in the Russian streets, with a long-repressed people reinventing liberty, equality, and fraternity in their own cultural image. Chamberlain examines how some of the greatest Russian names of the nineteenth-century—from Alexander Herzen to Mikhail Bakunin, Ivan Turgenev to Fyodor Dostoevsky—defined their visions for Russia in relationship to their views on German enthusiasm for revolutionary France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the centenary of the Russian Revolution approaching, \u003ci\u003eArc of Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e is an important and timely revisioning of this tumultuous moment in history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reaktion Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057972986096,"sku":"9781780238524","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780238524_p0.jpg?v=1763712048","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780238524","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}