[MarMema]

Have you read What is to Be Done by Chernyshevsky?

No.....tell me about this.

[nickcarraway]

What is to be Done was hugely influential Russian novel. It's not terribly well-written, and, yes, it's basically propaganda, but it's worth reading. It was Chernyshevsky's attempt to show how socialist intellectuals could change Russia- and the world. Lenin read it eight times or more in one summer. (Then he promptly stole the title- but that's another story.) This novel and it's followers played a big part in Doestoevsky's The Possessed.