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“Novie Vekhi” Collections – Time, Ideas, Authors
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1 ФИЛОСОФИЯ. ПСИХОЛОГИЯ
Date of publication
05.12.2019
Public year
2019
DOI
10.31857/S004287440007359-9
“Novie Vekhi” Collections – Time, Ideas, Authors
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The paper analyses philosophical and socio-philosophical articles in two «Novie Vekhi» сollections, released in 1944 and 1945 on the initiative of the fascist Russian national social movement. The reference to the history of the сollections is provided; famous russian scientists and philosophers who agreed on the ideological cooperation with the Vlasov army and with Nazi Germany took part in their creation. The content of the editorial statement on the need for spiritual overcoming of Bolshevism as the primary task of the intelligentsia is analyzed. The secion «Articles on philosophy» displays how «Novie Vekhi»’s authors, who fundamentally denied the possibility of materialist dialectics, criticize the materialistic solution of basic philosophical questions – the notion of matter, the problem of relation of matter to consciousness, the emergence and development of life. The secion «Social philosophy» considers «Novie Vekhi»’s analyses of the economical, political and moral essence of socialism in the USSR and the critisism of Marxist doctrine of classes and class struggle. The paper highlights that «Novie Vekhi»’s authors rely on the representative circle of marxist works; and while fulfilling the tasks set by the publishing house, they attach particular significance to the chapter «On Dialectical and Historical Materialism in the “History of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks): Short Course”». In the section «Authors», the pseudonyms of the authors of the articles in the сollections «Novie Vekhi» are revealed and also the information about pro-fascist sympathies of some of them is provided. In conclusion, it is reasoned that the authors of «Novie Vekhi» were guided not by the search for the «philosophical truth», but by the hatred of the Soviet totalitarianism.

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Aleksander Ermichyov
Professor
Christian Academy for Humanities
References

1. Kolerov, Modest A. (1995) “‘Novie Vekhi’: the history of Vekhi’s mythology (1918–1944)”, Voprosi filosofii, Vol. 8 (1995), pp. 144–156 (in Russian).

2. Kolerov, Modest A. (2000) An Industry of ideas. Russian socio-political and religious-philosophical collections, 1887–1947, OGI, Moscow (in Russian).

3. Komandrova, Natalia I. (2009) Russian Prague, Veche, Moscow (in Russian).

4. Kovalev, Boris N. (2015) “Philosophical conversations in the dead city: S. A. Askoldov and occupiers in Veliky Novgorod”, Research on the history of Russian thought [11], Yearbook 2012–2014, Kolerov, Modest A. (ed.), Moscow (in Russian).

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