Contents: Introduction: a complex vision / Aileen Kelly -- Russia and 1848 -- The hedgehog and the fox -- Herzen and Bakunin on individual liberty -- A remarkable decade: The birth of the Russian intelligentsia ; German romanticism in Petersburg and Moscow ; Vissarion Belinsky ; Alexander Herzen -- Russian populism -- Tolstoy and enlightenment -- Fathers and children. - Includes bibliographical references and index