What Is to Be Done?

novel by Nikolay Chernyshevsky
VisualArtwork literary_work Q2251772
What Is to Be Done?
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What Is to Be Done?

Summary

What Is to Be Done? is a literary work[1]. What Is to Be Done? ranks in the top 3% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (468 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • What Is to Be Done? authored Nikolay Chernyshevsky[3].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s image is recorded as Chto delat-1867.jpg[4].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s image is recorded as What is to be Done.jpg[5].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s instance of is recorded as literary work[6].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s genre is recorded as social criticism[7].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 183678567[8].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s GND ID is recorded as 4125181-7[9].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as no95009939[10].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 14437540b[11].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s IdRef ID is recorded as 070789681[12].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s language of work or name is recorded as Russian[13].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s country of origin is recorded as Russian Empire[14].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s publication date is recorded as +1863-00-00T00:00:00Z[15].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0gnxw9[16].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s Open Library ID is recorded as OL1249891W[17].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s NL CR AUT ID is recorded as aun2015869346[18].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s topic's main category is recorded as Q64460197[19].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s National Library of Israel ID is recorded as 004162531[20].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s LibraryThing work ID is recorded as 113859[21].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/What-Is-to-Be-Done-novel-by-Chernyshevsky[22].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'Что делать?'}[23].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Was tun?'}[24].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'What Is to Be Done?'}[25].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'eo', 'text': 'Kion faru?'}[26].
  • What Is to Be Done?'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'es', 'text': 'Chto delat'}[27].

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Works and Contributions

What Is to Be Done? authored Nikolay Chernyshevsky[3].

Why It Matters

What Is to Be Done? ranks in the top 3% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (468 views/month).[2] What Is to Be Done? has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] What Is to Be Done? is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  7. [9] . Virtual International Authority File. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Virtual International Authority File. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Virtual International Authority File. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Virtual International Authority File. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Virtual International Authority File. wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Form of creative work novel, novella
    Country of origin
    Copyright status public domain, public domain
    Publisher Q1187775
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