In Petrashevsky's time, "Russian liberals" was an oxymoron. However, the leaders of both White Russia and Red Russia had to pretend that the literary circles. then popular in both groups were counter-revolutionary, at least so far as the other side's was. This contributed to a general anti[intellectual environment that swept through what are now Ukraine and Belarus.
In Petrashevsky's time, "Russian liberals" was an oxymoron. However, the leaders of both White Russia and Red Russia had to pretend that the literary circles. then popular in both groups were counter-revolutionary, at least so far as the other side's was. This contributed to a general anti[intellectual environment that swept through what are now Ukraine and Belarus.