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Astride the Abyss of War and Revolutions: Articles 1914-1922
Hardcover
PhilosophyGeneral ChristianityGeneral Political Science
ISBN13: 9780996399272
Publisher: Frsj Publications
Published: Jul 24 2017
Pages: 742
Weight: 2.54
Height: 1.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The present text, Astride the Abyss of War and Revolutions: Articles 1914-1922 represents 1st English translation and publication of an extensive sbornik/collection of 98 articles (numerically, about 20% of the total corpus of his works) by the eminent Russian religious philosopher Nicholas Berdyaev, regarding societal, political, cultural and religious matters, which remain of great continuing critical importance for our modern world.
The historical period covered spans Russia's entry into WWI, the challenges of upholding the war effort, the collapse of the Old Regime under the rot of Rasputinism, and the subsequent two 1917 Russian Revolutions. First was the February Revolution, the inherently unstable attempt by wartime Russia to create a democratic republic under Kerensky's Provisional Government, a brief moment of freedom, of freedom of the word and thought, which in turn was undermined by ideological societal agitation for an ever continued deepening of the Revolution, not merely political but societal. Berdyaev argues that there can be no true social revolution without a radical inner transformation of the human person; revolution as such is destructively non-creative a process and but reflects a continuation of the old poison under new guises. Russia under the revolutionary fervour merely replaced Rasputin with Lenin, and the pogrom-minded Black Hundredists mentality with a pogrom-minded Red Hundredists mentality...
The second 1917 Russian Revolution, the October Revolution, occurred with Lenin's Bolshevik-Marxist coup. Our text hints at rumours, even then, of Germany's hand in foisting Lenin upon Russia to sabotage the war effort. Instead of freedom, Lenin's Communism proclaimed a dictatorship of the proletariat. There is a truism that revolutions ultimately devour their makers, whether in 1939 under Stalin, or in the century long revolutionary movements in Russia that saw their ultimate climax and demise in these years of bloody anarchy and Civil War. Much of Berdyaev's writings of this later period will be published only abroad, with his 1922 banishment from Russia, -- such as his fiery tome, The Philosophy of Inequality.
Our present text may be considered part of the current Centenary interest into WWI, the Great War, and its tragic aftermath of residual effects, which have continued through subsequent traumatic events to quake the quietude of modern life.
As in the dynamics of any classical tragedy, and gifted with historical hindsight, we are beset with the paralysis of terror at the impending fated disasters that are to ensue, and thus share in the healing process of catharsis. Berdyaev has proactive and creative an understanding of the Russian religio-philosophic theme of God-manhood, grounded upon the ontological concept of person, in authentic freedom at spiritual a depth. Berdyaev's sympathy with the thought of N. F. Fedorov suggests a Memory Eternal to all who have perished, that their lives and struggles have not been in vain, and opens a path to transcend the alienation within modern man.
The Table of Contents for the present text, as well as for other books under the imprint of frsj Publications, may be found at the website berdyaev.com, qv. This is another in our series of providing primary texts of Russian Religious Philosophy in 1st English translation.
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