History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev

"Nihilists" (1x14)

Air date: Mar 23, 2022

This lecture looks at the continued growth of dissent by educated Russians, this time an organized student movement in the 1860s and the appearance of a new kind of intelligent, the "Nihilists" whose criticisms of tradition seemed so uncompromising as to be a rejection of everything.