Talk:Nihilist movement

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I know some sources that state that Nihilism was a cultural movement, as I will add to the page. Some people, in face of the hardening of the Tsarist rule, recurred later to violence, and that was a separate thing. The Tzarist government also used it to attack the real nihilists and give them a bad name, as they were asking for more democracy and for the abolition of servitude in Russia. These are the references:

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/memoirs/memoirs4_12.html and

http://wwics.si.edu/topics/pubs/ACF2B0.pdf Mr.Rocks 11:48, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

I'm deleting the phrase on Bakunin and Marx. It says nothing about nihilism, and anyway, it shouldn't be in a paragraph devoted to the decembrist revolt. That revolt happened much before Bakunin or Marx had involved in politics. Mr.Rocks 13:29, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

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I've erased the paragraph and picture on the decembrist revolt. There is a special page for it, and the Nihilists were not a split nor a continuation from the decembrist movement. The fact that they at some point opposed the same government was coincidental. Mr.Rocks 07:57, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Added research on nihilism's historical context

Included a few paragraphs from a paper I wrote several years ago while in school (PDF - http://www.ellenbeldner.info/portfolio/ubermensch.pdf). Also added references to one of the research books I used, which discussed Turgenev's _Fathers and Sons_ in its historical context. -- elbeldner, 6 Aug 2005

[edit] The Big Lebowski picture

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Should this really be here as I think the people identified are just nihilists and not specifically from the nihilist movement. Horses In The Sky ^{talk contributions}

The Big Lebowski, while a bloody awesome movie, has nothing to do with the Nihilist movement. In addition, they were philosophical nihilists (from what is said in the movie, plus the stereotype of bitter people dressed in black etc) as opposed to cultural nihilists of Russia.

Also, they weren't very good nihilists anyway. "That's not fair!"Andrew zot 06:41, 14 September 2006 (UTC)