What Is to Be Done with ChernyshevskyТs Utopia?

The outstanding literary critic and public figure Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (1828-1889) has to his credit one of the most famous books in Russian literature, the novel What Is to Be Done? (published in the journal Sovremennik, Contemporary, in 1863). The book had little luck in the history of our literature from the start, for neither …