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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the latter called it. It is significant that Tolstoy too, who in many respects is diametrically opposed to Dostoievsky, shared his view i-i the State, and in fact went further than Dostoievsky by actually devoting his energies to undermining it. Again, Solovyov, the central figure in Russian speculative thought, began by exalting the theocratic principle of holy statehood, but ended by banishing statehood from the Kingdom of God, even in its earthly realization. He repudiated the idea of Christ's worldly dominion on earth and proclaimed the anarchic, a-poli- tical, direct communion of the believers with Christ as the essence of the kingdom of God. (See Trubetzkoi, Krusheniye teokratii, etc., Russkay Mysl, Jan., 1912). As a theory, etatisme never flourished in Russian soil. It may have been a sublimated reaction against the all-absorbing historical task of state-building. Recognizing the danger of generalizations, we may nevertheless venture to say that an anarchistic bias is noticeable in Rusian thought. It is perhaps part of the general disposition to undervalue conventional forms and concentrate on the ultimate foundations of life. A Postscript: THE BURNING BUSH It is popularly held that among the chief values of Dostoievsky's work is its humanitarianism. He is extolled as a great Christian. Further, he is often given the crown of martyrdom for freedom. This view of the man may be questioned on all three counts. We have seen that his exile was merely an incident in the Russian comedy of errors. In the light of the evidence we have presented there can be little doubt but that he consciously allied himself with the forces of reaction. In sanctioning what needed no sanction, he represented the conservative and traditionalist inertia of Russian life. In this respect, as in oth...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217828888 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217828884 |
| Weight | 0.25 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.16 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 66 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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