The spiritual revival that is sweeping the Soviet Union today had
its genesis in the religious renaissance of the early 20th century.
In both cases, it was lay intellectuals, disenchanted with
simplistic positivism and materialism, who adapted Russian
orthodoxy to modern life. Their ideas reverberated, not only in
religion and philosophy, but in art, literature, painting, theater
and film. Banned by the Soviet government in 1922, the writings of
the religious renaissance were rediscovered in the Brezhnev era by
a new generation of Soviet intellectuals disillusioned with
Marxism. Circulating from hand to hand in illegal typewritten
editions (samizdat), they exerted an evergrowing influence on
Soviet society, from the very top down to ordinary people. Under
the new policy of glasnost, the government itself is currently
reprinting their works. The selections included in this volume
reflect the profundity and breadth of their thought and are
presented in English for the first time. The recognition of the
universal need and significance of spiritual values and ideals
united this otherwise heterogeneous group and bears witness to the
diversity of their approach to the basic issues of the human
condition. The centrality of these lay intellectualsa concerns
transcends the specifics of the historical situation in early 20th
century Russia and makes their writings relevant to the universal
human condition. In order of appearance, the selections are:
VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV, The Enemy from the East, The Russian National
Ideal; NIKOLAI GROT, On the True Tasks of Philosophy; SERGEI
DIAGHILEV, Complex Questions; VASILLY V. ROZANOV, On Sweetest Jesus
and the Bitter Fruits of the World; NIKOLAI BERDIAEV, Socialism as
Religion; SERGEI BULGAKOV, An Urgent Task; VIACHISLAV IVANOV,
Crisis of Individualism, GEORGII CHULKOV, On Mystical Anarchism;
DMITRI S. MEREZHKOVSKY, Revolution and Religion, The Jewish
Question As a Russian Question; GEORGII FLOROVSKY, In the World of
Quests and Wanderings; PAVEL NOVGORODTSEV, The Essence of the
Russian Orthodox Consciousness; PETR STRUVE, The Intelligentsia and
the National Face; ANDREI BELY, Revolution and Culture; ALEKSANDR
BLOK, Catiline; EVGENY TRUBETSKOI, The Bolshevist Utopia and the
Religious Movement.
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