Alexander Herzen Philosopher

Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ге́рцен; April 6 [O.S. 25 March] 1812 – January 21 [O.S. 9 January] 1870) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Trudoviks and the agrarian American Populist Party). He is held responsible for creating a political climate leading to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. His autobiography My Past and Thoughts, written with grace, energy, and ease, is often considered the best specimen of that genre in Russian literature. He also published the important social novel Who is to Blame? (1845–46).

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Alias (AKA)	Herzen Aleksandr Ivanovich
Birth date	April 06, 1812
Birth place	Moscow , Russia , Russian Empire
Date of death	January 21, 1870
Place of death	Paris , France , Second French Empire
Era	19th-century philosophy
Main interest	Economics Russia Class conflict

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influenced	Jean-Paul Sartre Leon Trotsky Mao Zedong Peter Kropotkin Isaiah Berlin Frankfurt School Che Guevara Vladimir Lenin
influenced by	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Jean-Jacques Rousseau Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
notable idea	Agrarianism Collectivism Socialism Populism
philosophical school	Agrarianism