Russian Philosophy, Vol. 3: Pre-Revolutionary Philosophy Theology, Philosophers in Exile, Marxists and Communists

Russian Philosophy, Vol. 3: Pre-Revolutionary Philosophy Theology, Philosophers in Exile, Marxists and Communists by Edie, James M.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780870497162.

Twentieth-century Russian philosophy opens with the resurgence of religious currents of thought that, since the time of the early Slavophiles, had been isolated in the theological academies. Such thinkers as Fyodorov and Solovyov made religious philosophy once again academically and culturally acceptable in Russia, and their efforts were continued by the Russian philosophers in exile, among whom Berdyaev, Shestov, Frank, and Lossky are the most eminent. Since the Revolution of 1917, philosophy inside Russia has been gradually replaced by political action and the more-or-less "scholastic" efforts to justify such action through various levels of Marxist revisionism. Official Soviet philosophy today is wholly identified with the fortunes of an ever-changing reinterpretation of dialectical materialism; Russian philosophy in the traditional sense is now almost exclusively identified with the philosophers in exile and their disciples.