Abstract: The works included in the collective monograph explore the features of the literary process dating back to the era of the Russo-Japanese War and the Russian Revolution of 1905, in connection with the dominant cultural, historical, literary and social factors of this period. The studies are based on the intertwining of content and poetological relationships between catastrophic shifts in Russian society and the growth of new trends in literature, art, philosophy, artistic and scientific journalism. The contributors to this volume try to show how the war and the revolution brought a number of ideological and artistic innovations in the work of such different writers as Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Leonid Andreev, Korney Chukovsky, Skitalets (S.G. Petrov), Alexander Kuprin, Ivan Shmelev, Alexandra Mire (Moiseeva), Ivan Bunin and others. A number of studies are based on previously little-known printed and archival materials (letters, unpublished articles, early versions of literary texts, etc.). Two types of understanding of the Apocalypse (active and projective) are distinguished: the latter is determined by the active and creative eschatology of N.F. Fedorov and V.S. Solovyov.
Keywords: Apocalypse, eschatology, Russo-Japanese War, Russian Revolution of 1905, Russian literature and philosophy of the late 19th – early 20th century.
CONTENTS
From the Editorial Board
Yuriy B. Orlitsky. Apocalypse in Verse
Nina V. Barkovskaya. The Russo-Japanese War as an Occasion for Self-reflection and Dialogue of Cultures
Olga A. Bogdanova. The Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905 as a Factor in Rethinking the Heritage of F.M. Dostoevsky in the Silver Age
Elena A. Andrushchenko. Anticipating the “End Times”: D.S. Merezhkovsky’s Periodical Publications of the First Russian Revolution
Rita Giuliani. Andreyev’s “Mysl’” (“Thought”) as an Object of Literary and Psychiatric Analysis
Mikhail V. Kozmenko. “New Songs” for a “New Reader”: Crystallization of Andreyev’s “Pre-expressionism” in the Early Drafts and the First Edition of the Play “To the Stars”
Elena Yu. Knorre. The Mysticity of Liberation: The Revolution of 1905 in the Perception of L. Tolstoy and L. Andreyev (“Divine and Human” and “The Seven Who Were Hanged”)
Maria V. Mikhailova. “Citizen Ukleykin” by I.S. Shmelyov as a Declaration of Human Rights
Sofya V. Kudritskaya. The Artistic Interpretation of the Events of the First Russian Revolution in the Works of Alexandra Mire (Moiseeva) (1874–1913)
Cheng Liang. “We Sailed with You Towards the Dawn...” (The Work of Skitalets from the Period of the First Russian Revolution)
Tatiana M. Dvinyatina. Ivan Bunin and Nikolai Azbelev: Poetry and Astronomy
Evgeny R. Ponomarev. Ivan Bunin on the Epoch of the Revolutions and the First World War. From “The Village” to “Cursed Days” and the Stories about the Soviet Life
Anastasia G. Gacheva. “Active and Projective Understanding of the Apocalypse” in Russian Thought of the 1900s and Mid-1910s.
Name Index (comp. Vera M. Vvedenskaya)
