Full Description
Written from a particular point of view, this text still stands as one of the key studies on the thought-world of the Russian intelligentsia. It will be of interest to students of Russian social and political thought as to those of intellectual history as well.
Contents
INTRODUCTION, PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 1 Philosophic Truth and the Moral Truth of the Intelligentsia NIKOLAI BERDYAEV 3 Heroism and Asceticism: Reflections on the Religious Nature of the Russian Intelligentsia SERGEI BULGAKOV 23 Creative Self-Cognition MIKHAIL GERSHENZON 64 On Educated Youth: Notes on its Life and Sentiments ALEKSANDR IZGOEV 88 In the Defense of Law: The Intelligentsia and Legal Consciousness BOGDAN KISTYAKOVSKY 112 The Intelligentsia and Revolution PYOTRSTRUVE 138 The Ethic of Nihilism: A Characterization of the Russian Intelligentsia's Moral Outlook SEMEN FRANK 155 BIOGRAPHIES
