Talk:Petrashevsky Circle

"good details translated"
Wiki-links of incorrect format and nonsense names like "Mike" and "Lviv" created by machine translation at January 10, 2010. IMHO it would be better just to revert such edits or make a thorough cleanup rather than to correct such mistakes one by one with many edits. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 14:50, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Could you please add sources and references? Thanks.

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 * I didn't write the current article, but Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky: the Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 (1976) has some very good chapters on this, and he points out that Dostoevsky and a few others belonged to a secret, more hardcore group within the P.circle which had really set its own goals. This smaller group, which included Chernyshevsky and especially Speshnyev, were preparing to spread leaflets inciting to some sort of uprising (peasants burning manors, killing nobles and military men etc) and they may have been aware of the early writings of Marx around 1848 (through Bakunin and Speshnyev). Through the cold determination of Fedya and others to keep silent, the interrogators never found out: if they had, Dostoevsky and many more would have been executed for real.Strausszek (talk) 03:49, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I've included a section on Speshnev's group, based on the Seeds of Revolt. Harold the Sheep (talk) 05:06, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

Fourier series? Really?
The sentence “With a passionate interest they read and commented on the theory of Kaba, Fourier series, Proudhon, and finally, listened with delight to Belinsky's letter to Gogol" is either a piece of hilarious vandalism, a very serious misunderstanding, or a very unlikely piece of historical trivia that merits further explanation. Usually when the name Fourier is mentioned in the same breath as 19th century revolutionaries (especially Frenchmen like Proudhon), the referent is Utopian socialist Charles Fourier, not his contemporary mathematician Joseph Fourier, who the Fourier series is named after.

Now, it's possible that 19th century Russian revolutionaries were fascinated with the prospect of decomposing functions into their periodic components, but if that's the case, it should be clarified.

Thanks, 184.17.170.153 (talk) 22:20, 22 June 2012 (UTC)