Wandering Ideas: Circulations of Radical Social Thought in the long 19th century

Abstract

This article is an introduction to a special issue on ‘Wandering Ideas: Circulations of Radical Social Thought in the long 19th century’, which contributes to the ongoing debates on the revolutionary and socialist ideas on the move before the First World War. Collected papers touch upon, chiefly, such countries as Argentina, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, as well as the Russian and Ottoman Empires. Contributions in their previous forms were presented and discussed at the workshop held at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, on October 21–22, 2022. This introduction provides a concise overview of methods applied in research on circulations of sociopolitical ideas in the past and currently, as well as proposes a prospect for grounding them within the frames of imperial history.