Description
Book SynopsisThe 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 who adapted Russian orthodoxy to modern life. This book includes selections that reflect the profundity and breadth of their thought.
Trade Review"... this is an excellent collection which will serve well as a textbook or as a general introduction to the history of the religious renaissance among the pre-revolutionary Russian intelligentsia." -Modern Greek Studies Yearbook
Table of ContentsThe enemy from the East, Vladimir Solovyov; the Russian national ideal, Vladimir Solovyov; on the true tasks of philosophy, Nikolai Grot; complex questions, Sergei Diaghilev; on sweetest Jesus and the bitter fruits of the world, Vasilly V.Rozanov; socialism as religion, Nikolai Berdiaev; an urgent task, Sergei Bulgakov; crisis of individualsim, Viachislav Ivanov; on mystical anarchism, Georgii Chulkov; revolution and religion, Dmitri S.Merezhkovsky; the Jewish question as a Russian question, Dmitri S.Merezhkovsky; in the world of quests and wanderings, Georgii Florovsky; the essence of the Russian Orthodox consciousness, Pavel Novgorodtsev; the intelligentsia and the national farce, Petr Struve; revolution and culture, Andrei Bely; catiline, Aleksandr Blok; the Bolshevist utopia and the religious movement, Evgeny Trubetskoi.
