Alexander Herzen

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Russian émigré human philosopher political thinker socialist writer

Alexander Herzen was a 19th-century Russian writer, thinker, and early socialist often regarded as the “father of Russian socialism” and a key critic of both Tsarist autocracy and dogmatic revolutionaries.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Russian émigré → human → philosopher → political thinker → socialist → writer →
birthCountry	Russian Empire →
birthDate	1812-04-06 →
birthPlace	Moscow →
citizenship	Russian Empire →
deathCountry	France →
deathDate	1870-01-21 →
deathPlace	Paris →
describedAs	father of Russian socialism →
educatedAt	Moscow University →
familyName	Herzen →
father	Ivan Yakovlev NERFINISHED →
fieldOfWork	literature → political philosophy → social theory →
founded	Free Russian Press → Kolokol →
fullName	Alexander Ivanovich Herzen →
genre	memoir → novel → political essay →
givenName	Alexander →
ideology	liberalism → populism → socialism →
influenced	Russian populists → Russian revolutionary movement → Vladimir Lenin →
influencedBy	French socialism → Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel →
languageOfWorkOrName	Russian →
mother	Luisa Haag →
movement	Russian liberalism → Russian socialism → Westernizer movement →
nativeName	Александр Иванович Герцен →
notableFor	critique of Tsarist autocracy → critique of dogmatic revolutionaries →
notableIdea	Russian peasant commune as basis for socialism →
notableWork	From the Other Shore → My Past and Thoughts → Who Is to Blame? →
occupation	journalist → philosopher → political activist → publisher → writer →
patronymicName	Ivanovich →
positionHeld	editor of Kolokol →
residence	Geneva → London → Paris →
spouse	Natalya Zakharina →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Against the Current →	containsEssayOn
Alexander Herzen ("Alexander Ivanovich Herzen") →	fullName
Isaiah Berlin →	influencedBy
Alexander Herzen ("Александр Иванович Герцен") →	nativeName
Russian Thinkers →	notablePersonDiscussed