A Note on the Speech of Peter Alekseev
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8006698 |
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| Authors | Robert M Otto (corresponding author), Robert Otto |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 650-654 |
| Publication date | 1979-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2496568 |
| OpenAlex | W2335065205 |
| Language | EN |
The speech of the worker Peter Alekseev, delivered on March 9, 1877, at the famous trial of “the fifty,” occupies a sensitive position in the debate concerning the contributions and participation of workers and peasants in the Russian revolutionary movement. Between 1877 and 1917, the speech was reprinted more than twenty times by both populists and Marxists, thus providing the Russian free press with one of its classic publications. Adam Ulam has recently questioned Alekseev's authorship of the printed text on two grounds. First, Ulam considers the printed speech too polished to have been written by a worker
Economics · Position (finance · History · Political theory and Gramsci
| Highly cited | No |
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