Background
BRODSKIY, Nikolay was born on November 15, 1881 in Yaroslavl’.
literary historian and pedagogue
BRODSKIY, Nikolay was born on November 15, 1881 in Yaroslavl’.
1904 graduate Moscow University.
From 1918 associate professor, then professor, Moscow University. Gave general courses on Russian lit and special seminars at many higher educational establishments in Moscow and other cities. Specialized in methods of teaching literature
Long before 1917, as supporter of cultural history school, criticized lack of ideological content in lit works. After 1917 October Revol contributed to Marxist lit history studies. Did research on 19th-Century Russian lit and its connections with the development of Russian soc thought.
Wrote numerous studies of Belinskiy, Herzen, the Slavophiles, the Wcsternizers, Chernyshcvskiy, Dostoyevsky and the development of the Russian theater in the 18th-20th Centuries. Made a detailed study of Turgenev’s papers. Edited lit history collections: Turgenev i yego vremya (Turgenev and His Time) (1923).
Library Science Turgenev (1940). Tvorcheskiy put’ Dostoyevskogo (Dostoyevsky’s Creative Career) (1924), et cetera
Major religious moral codes dehumanise individuals outside their group as less worthy. Results can vary from discrimination to genocide.
Individuals have rights to express freedom if it safeguarde the interests of a collective.
Member, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Academy of Pedagogical Sciences.