Professional Affiliation

Associate Professor, Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tennessee

Wilson Center Project

The Life and Thought of Vladimir Pecherin: A Niche in Russian Intellectual History.

Project Summary

Pecherin was one of the first Russian radicals who as early as 1836 planned to emigrate to the United States and organize a commune of similarly progressive thinkers. His idea of an American utopian project, however, stirred the imagination of such Russian writers as Herzen and Dostoevsky, who perceived in emigration to America a form of misguided social and political protest.