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Who was the dominant intellectual figure of the Russian 1860s democratic movement?

  • Nikolay Chernyshevsky

  • Ivan Turgenev

  • Aleksandr Pushkin

  • Anton Chekhov

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Nikolay Chernyshevsky was the dominant intellectual figure of the Russian 1860s democratic movement. He was a radical and a utilitarian who believed that the goal of society should be to maximize happiness for the greatest number of people. Chernyshevsky's ideas were influential in the development of Russian populism and socialism.
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