Vekhi

Wechi ( Russian: Вехи translated, road signs ) was an anthology (published in 1909, 5 runs) with articles of some famous Russian authors. The anthology called the change of heart of several Russian thinkers who had developed during the revolution of 1905 from its earlier pro- revolutionary, Marxist attitude to liberalism or conservatism. The authors of the collection were Nikolai Berdyaev, Sergei Bulgakov, AS Izgojew, M.O. Herschenson ( Geršenzon ), B. A. Kistjakowskij, S. L. Frank, Pyotr Struve. Four out of seven contributors were Neokantianer. These intellectuals rejected the violence of the revolution, anarchy and " ethical confusion " from, threw the radical parties and the Russian intelligentsia dogmatism, nihilism, self-censorship and power cult before. The contributors called for the intelligentsia to be cultivating inward goodness and spiritual values.

The Wechi were ( generally ) of intellectuals strongly criticized by both the left (eg Lenin) as well and sometimes even referred to as a betrayal. The publication of the collection has been called later than the biggest sensation Russian intellectual life since Tschaadajews letter.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn saw the collection as a prophetic work, but was ignored or rejected. ( А.Солженицын, " Образованищина " in:. " Из - под глыб ", М, 1974. )

Swell

  • Aileen Kelly Self- Censorship and the Russian Intelligentsia, 1905-1914 In: Slavic Review Vol 46, No. 2 ( Summer, 1987), pp. 193-213
  • Aileen Kelly " Signposts Movement" In E. Craig ( Ed. ), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://www.rep.routledge.com/article/E058
  • Gisela Oberlander " The Vechi discussion 1909-1912 ", Cologne 1965
  • Christopher Read " Religion, revolution and the Russian Intelligentsia 1900-1912: the Vekhi debate and its intellectual background", London 1979.
  • Karl Schlogel "Beyond the Great October: The laboratory of Modern Petersburg between 1909-1921. . " Berlin, 1988
  • Karl Schlogel (ed.) " Vechi - Signs: the crisis of the Russian intelligentsia ", Frankfurt am Main 1990
  • Jutta Scherrer, " personality versus society: Did the Vechi right? " in: Christa Ebert (ed.), " Individualitätskonzepte in Russian culture ", Berlin, 2002, pp. 199-200. .
  • Jutta Scherrer, " The Petersburg Religious - Philosophical Associations: the development of the religious self- understanding of their intelligentsia members (1901-1917) ", Wiesbaden 1973.
  • A. A. and E. A. Tacho Godi ( HGS ). " Sbornik Vechi v kontekste russkoj kul'tury ", Moscow 2007
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