Hard Times: A Novel of Liberals and Radicals in 1860s Russia (Russian and East European Studies)

by Michael R. Katz (Author), Vasily Sleptsov (Author)

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  2016

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  Vasily Sleptsov was a Russian social activist and writer during the politically charged 1860s, known as the era of great reforms . Popular in his day, Sleptsov's contemporaries Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov praised his writing. The novella Hard Times is considered Sleptsov's most important work. It focused popular attention on the radical and liberal movements.