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Originally published 1937; this is a reprint of the second edition of 1948. Nikolai Berdyaev (1874-1948), born into the Russian aristocratic intelligentsia, was, as a young Marxist, sentenced in 1897 to three years of internal exile for illegal political activity. After turning from Marxism toward Christianity, his 1913 criticism of the Orthodox Church led him to be charged with blasphemy, a crime for which he would have been liable to permanent Siberian exile, though WWI and the 1917 Revolution prevented his coming to trial. While at odds with the Bolsheviks after the revolution, Berdyaev gained appointment as professor of philosophy at the University of Moscow in 1920, only to be expelled from the country in 1922 (in the famous philosophers ships), eventually settling in Paris where he remained till his death in 1948. His corpus includes some 483 signed books and articles, many still unavailable in English. Of his The Origin of Russian Communism, Inna Naletova, now at the University of Vienna, wrote in 2001: In his study of the origin of Russian Communism, Nikolai Berdyaev presented a now classic thesis that the Russian religious mentality and communist ideology have much in comm

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Author

Nicolas Berdyaev; Transl. from the Russ. by R.M. French

Publisher

University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor)

Published

1972

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472060344

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Social Science, Religion, Political Science

Rating

3.94 / 5 (61 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13