A Vital Question, or, What is to be Done?

LibriVox recording of A Vital Question, or, What is to be Done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky. (Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole; Simon S. Skidelsky.) Read in English by Expatriate Despised by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, What Is To Be Done? is a fascinating, sympathetic story of idealistic revolutionaries in mid-nineteenth century tsarist Russia; translator Nathan Haskell Dole affirms in his preface his conviction that it is a thriller that no one can put down once s/he begins it. Its variegated cast of characters includes Vera Pavlovna, a boldly independent woman in a time of great oppression, and t