Thernishevsky - A Novelist

Thernishe sky envisioned a kind of agrarian socialism that could spring naturally from the already existent village communes. He was personally and temperamentally a revolutionary, but kept his prose mostly clear of those kinds of suggestions. Though he did warn against trusting too much in the czar's emancipation scheme. True liberty could never be handed down from above. It would have to be seized from below. What is to be done tells the story of a young wom who escapes from an arranged marriage. But it is mostly a vehicle for expressing a semi utopian vision for the future that was built around communal factories.