M. Mysl'. 1983. 271 p. The book of Candidate of Historical Sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR E. A. Dudzinskaya is a generalizing concrete historical study of the activities of the Slavophils on the eve of the peasant reform, in 1856-1861. (however, the author often and quite correctly makes excursions into the 40s and even the end of the 30s). The range of questions raised and considered in the book is extensive: the ideological and theoretical positions and views of the Slavophils, their economic and social activities, their participation in the development of the peasant reform of 1861 - in provincial committees and editorial commissions; the relations between Slavophils and Westerners, as representatives of two trends within the same liberal camp; Slavophils and revolutionary democrats as representatives of two trends within the same liberal camp. representatives of various trends of social thought in their class content; in a separate chapter, the question of the community is considered. And on all these issues, the monograph not only summarizes the already known material, but also introduces new ones into scientific circulation. This is especially true of the epistolary heritage of the Slavophils, which has not yet been sufficiently studied by historians. The author poses and solves important problems. For the first time, the theory and practice of the Slavophils, their historical concept and concrete economic and social activities are considered in unity and interrelation, which allows us to reveal the definition of class nature more clearly. page 131 Slavophilism as "one of the varieties of bourgeois-landlord liberalism" (p.8, 59). An expression of this unity, "the link between the theoretical views of the Slavophils and their practical activity in preparing the solution of the peasant question", was, as E. A. Dudzinskaya proves, the provision formulated by them on the "historical right ... Read more