Landmarks Revisited : the Vekhi Symposium One Hundred Years On / edited by Robin Aizlewood and Ruth Coates.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aizlewood, Robin, editor.

Coates, Ruth, editor.

Series:

Cultural revolutions.

Cultural revolutions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectuals--Russia--Congresses.

Intellectuals.

Authors, Russian--Political and social views--Congresses.

Authors, Russian.

Vekhi--Congresses.

Vekhi.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages).

Other Title:

Landmarks Revisited

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2013.

Summary:

The Vekhi (Landmarks) symposium (1909) is one of the most famous publications in Russian intellectual and political history. Landmarks Revisited offers a new and comprehensive assessment of the symposium and its legacy from a variety of disciplinary perspectives by leading scholars in their fields.

Contents:

1 Word Games? The Russian "Intelligentsia" as a Question of Semantics

2 Perversions and Transformations: A. S. Izgoev and the Intelligentsia Debates, 1904-22

3 The Intelligentsia Fights Back: The Lef t-wing Response to Vekhi and its Significance

4 The Rise of the People and the Political Philosophy of the Vekhi Authors

5 Individual Freedom And Social Justice: Bogdan Kistiakovskii's Defense of the Law

6 Russian Political Theology in an Age of Revolution

7 Chaadaev and Vekhi

8 Lev Tolstoi, Petr Struve And The "Afterlife " of Vekhi

9 Aleksei Losev and Vekhi Strategic Traditions in Social Philosophy

10 Inside Out: Good, Evil, and the Question of Inspiration

11 D. S. Merezhkovskii Versus the Vekhi Authors

12 Feuerbach, Kant, Dostoevskii: The Evolution of "Heroism" and "Asceticism" in Bulgakov's Work to 1909.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.