Dmitri Sergeevich Merezhkovsky and the Silver Age: The Development of a Revolutionary Mentality

ISBN-13: 9789401183536 / Angielski / Miękka / 1975 / 248 str.

Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal; Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal

Opis

As the central event of modern times, the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 remains a major focus of historical investigation and controversy. " Only a small center was willing to work with the government and the government was not always willing to work with them.

Spis treści

I. Art as Existential Activity: The Role of Symbolism in the World of Merezhkovsky (1890–1899).- I. The Poetry of Spiritual Despair.- II. The Formation of the Symbolist Ethos.- III. Nietzsche and Russian Symbolism.- II. Sanctifying the Profane: Merezhkovsky’s “New Religious Consciousness” (1899–1905).- IV. The “New Religious Consciousness”.- V. The Apocalyptic Resolution of Christianity and Paganism.- VI. Proselytizing the “Third Revelation”.- III. The Apocalypse of Personal and Social Salvation: Merezhkovsky’s “Theocratic Society” (1905–1917).- VII. The Religious Revolution.- VIII. The Theocratic Society.- Epilogue.- Conclusion.