![]() ![]() The young man was thrown into a quandary. Young radicals, Herzen wrote, discovered a “complete contradiction of the words they were taught with the facts of life around them.” Their books and their peers spoke one language, the language of reform and radicalism, but their parents spoke another, that of the dominant political and financial interests. Petersburg, was easily crushed by Nicholas I, the new tsar. In his autobiography, “My Past and Thoughts,” the nineteenth-century Russian writer Alexander Herzen discussed the moral stagnation that followed the crisis of December, 1825, when an optimistic rebellion, led by liberal aristocrats and Army officers in St. ![]()
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