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Published: 2022-09-03
No. 3 (179) (2022)

Russian ideas and troops

Grzegorz Władysław Przebinda Logo ORCID
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.31261/pr.13543

Abstract

Russian ideas and troops

The article is a modified and slightly expanded version of the introduction to my book From Chaadayev to Solovyov. Russian Modern Thinkers between East and West, to be published in autumn 2022 by Peter Lang. Due to the exceptional circumstances in which this introduction article was written – and I mean, of course, the criminal war against Ukraine, unleashed by Putin on February 24, 2022 – in the above text, I try to present the general history of 19th-century Russian philosophical thought from the perspective of their attitude to both the universal humanist tradition of Europe and to militarist nationalism in Russia, often with a religious overtone. It is from this point of view that I consider in turn the essence of the worldview of Peter Chaadayev, Aleksandr Herzen, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Feodor Dostoyevsky, and – most extensively – Vladimir Solovyov. In the background of all these thinkers, I also refer to Putin’s criminal “Orthodox worldview” and consider the essence of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s philosophical and political thought in general, especially with regard to Ukraine and the European Enlightenment. An important place in this article is my discussion, but also a polemic – sometimes even fundamental – with some views on Russian thought, history, and politics by Andrzej Walicki, who died in July 2022.

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science about culture and religion

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Przebinda, G. W. (2022). Russian ideas and troops. Przegląd Rusycystyczny [Russian Studies Review], (3 (179), 196–220. https://doi.org/10.31261/pr.13543

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No. 3 (179) (2022)
Published: 2022-09-06

ISSN: 0137-298X
Ikona DOI 10.31261/pr
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Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycystyczne oraz Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
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