Drawing on the philosophy of Dostoevsky, Gogol and Russian religious
thinkers, the author depicts an «unlimited social dreamwork», «messianism» and the strife
to break through «the horizon of the possible» as a characteristic feature of the Russian
national character as well as that of the Russian intelligentsia. This produces revolutionary
upheavals of world order and results in numerous victims and a great deal of atrocities.
Keywords
N.A. Berdiaev, F.M. Dostoevsky, N.V. Gogol, S.A. Askoldov, religious and revolutionary attitudes.
