ISBN10: 0996399240, ISBN13: 9780996399241, [publisher: Frsj Publications] Hardcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.
[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2016]

ISBN10: 0996399240, ISBN13: 9780996399241, [publisher: Frsj Publications] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 1st English Translation from Russian: 'The Fate of Russia' is an insightful book by the eminent Russian religious philosopher, Nicholas Berdyaev (1874-1948). There is an 'irony of fate' regarding the book in its 'untimely' timeliness -- a collection of WWI related articles from 1914-1916, it was published in 1918 only after the Russian Communist 1917 Revolution and Russia's subsequent dropping out of the war, but before the total closure of independent presses. Thus, 'untimely' at the moment of its appearance, it is at present quite 'timely' as regards an understanding of the enigmatic visage of post-Soviet Russia for the world. Berdyaev was banished from Russia by the Communists in 1922, a 'forbidden author' during the Soviet period. 'The Fate of Russia' is divided into five segments, the first exploring the psychology of the 'Russian Soul', the vastness of the Russian Land, a great East-West historically conflicted between its European and Asiatic-Mongol inheritance, the choice, as expressed by Vl. Solov'ev, between Xerxes or Christ. In separate articles, Berdyaev writes also of the French, the Germans and the Polish. WWI proved to be the 'graveyard of empires', spawning further historical nightmares into our own time. ...
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