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a valuable source for the study of the ideology of the Petrashevtsy, a group of Russian Utopian socialists.

The publication of a dictionary undertaken by officer N. S. Kirillov was used by the Petrashevtsy to spread democratic and materialist ideas and the principles of Utopian socialism. Fascicle 1 was edited by V. N. Maikov in collaboration with M. V. Petra-shevskii; fascicle 2 was edited by Petrashevskii (1845–46). Fascicle 2 contained subject matter of a political nature and criticized serfdom and the autocracy. In May 1846, publication was halted by the tsarist government. In subsequent years both fascicles were taken off the market and burned by the police.