Who Is to Blame?

Michael Katz is Starr Professor Emeritus of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College.

"Herzen's only novel is as much a social document as a fiction, since the many characters personify the major issues and types of the time... Herzen's humorous and ironic development of plot and character suggests an answer to the title question: all are to blame for the injustice and aimlessness of Russian life."-Library Journal "This edition of Who Is to Blame? demonstrates genuine involvement in the translator's craft by duplicating Herzen's barbed style and preserving the natural strengths of his prose."-Slavic Review "The translation is excellent... Katz catches the epigrammatic wit of the original-quite an accomplishment."-The New Republic "Herzen was one of the most lucid, realistic, and gifted thinkers of his age and a founder of Russian socialism... Who Is to Blame? remains of value for its acute social insights and Michael Katz has rendered it fluently into English."-Times Higher Education Supplement