| Titre | Révolte juvénile et contre-culture : Les nihilistes russes des «années 60» | |
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| Auteur | Michaël Confino | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 31, no 4, octobre-décembre 1990 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 489-537 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Michael Confino, Youth revolt and counter culture: The Russian nihilists of the 1860's.
Nihilism in the 1860's has been described in Russian historiography either as a phenomenon pertaining to the realm of history of ideas, or as a manifestation of the "Russian soul". While acknowledging the importance of the nihilists' contribution to the ideologies of their time, the article focuses on the major role of the social and psychological features which structured this "mouvement" and represented the critical differentia that set it apart from the ideological groupings and tendencies of the era.
These young men and women belonged to one and the same age group; most of them came from the nobility and had severed all links with home. Their primordial revolt was against their social milieu, their fathers and the noble family as they happened to know it from their own life experience. They met in or around the universities and congregated into closely knit groups, where they set up rules of behavior, of dress, and of speach that distinguished them from the "others". And they adhered to a strict code (kodeks) of their making and to a way of life that was the embodiment of their worldview. The article analyzes these features as manifestations of the nihilists' collective mentalité and counter culture, seen as original existential experiences far above and beyond the sole realm of ideas. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1990_num_31_4_2248 |
