Vissarion+Belinsky+and+Socialism

Vissarion Belinskii was a [|Russian literary critic], social thinker, essayist, and a role model for many authors. He was born in Sveaborg, Finland. In 1829 he entered the University of Moscow and began his journey of literature. During his stay at the University he got expelled for writing a play called //Dmitrii Kalinin//. This play attacked the institution of serfdom. At this time serfdom was a huge part of Russia’s economic system. He began his career outside of school by writing for the important journals of the day. These journals were called //Moskovskii Nabliutadel'//, //Otechestvennye Zapiski, Sovremennik//, and //Teleskop//. This is where he wrote his first philosophical letter.

Later Vissarion Belinskii recuperated from a serious illness and edited the Moscow observer for a year. After his Belinskii starts to focus more on the political and social aspects of writing. He first writes a essay called [|The Idea of Art]. This essay states that art and literature was utilitarian. Also that they had to transform society and not focus on contemplation of aesthetic principles. In easier terms it said they had to fix the society and not focus on examining artistic principles. Belinskii also liked to focus on the historical framework of literature.

The idea of utopian socialism ideology and rejected conservatism. His works here stated that the fate of a single individual is more important than the fate of the whole world or even a person in power. Also that an individual and nations are only instruments in the development of history. Off this he created //The Aesthetic Relations of Art to Reality// where he said that art was a reproduction of reality.


 * HOW DOES VISSARION BELINSKII RELATE TO BROTHERS KARAMAZOV?**

[|Belinskii] is a well known author in Russia and his ideas are very influential. He defended sociological realism in literature and reviewed the works **[|Dosteovsky's]**, which means they share some of the same views. Belinskii deeply influenced Dostoevsky's writings. He considered Belinskii his soul mate. A lot of the topic that Belinskii wrote about come up in Dostoevsky's works. Since all the issues that Belinskii writes about were important political and social issues of Russia. The book we are reading takes place in Russia and will have some of the same ideologies. Socialism for example comes up in the //Brothers Karamazov//.