Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword: Why Read Chicherin? ix
4. Translator’s Preface xxxi
5. Abbreviations xxxiv
6. Introduction: An Eccentric Vision: The Political Philosophy of B. N. Chicherin 1
7. Part One. Early Political Writings
8. On Serfdom 69
9. Contemporary Tasks of Russian Life 110
10. “Indictment”: An Open Letter to Alexander Herzen 141
11. Part Two. Excerpts from On Popular Representation
12. Representation and Sovereignty 151
13. Political Liberty and Its Development 157
14. The Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty 166
15. Properties of Popular Representation 180
16. Part Three. Studies in European Thought
17. Plato and Aristotle 209
18. More and Machiavelli 238
19. Montesquieu 256
20. Hegel 291
21. Marx 321
22. Part Four. Excerpts from Property and State
23. Liberty 353
24. Equality 380
25. Capitalism and Socialism 406
26. Notes 425
27. Index 449