title: Vladimir Bogoraz on religion and Bolshevism
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metadata.value: Shakhnovich, Marianna M.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-09-13T16:24:48Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-09-13T16:24:48Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-09
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metadata.value: Shakhnovich М. М. Vladimir Bogoraz on religion and Bolshevism. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2018, vol. 34, issue 3, pp. 441–453.
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu17.2018.311
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14821
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In 2017, Yury Slezkine’s new book, “The Government House. Saga of the Russian Revolution”
  was published. The American professor seeks to prove, using the material of several family histories of the Soviet party and state figures in the 1920s–1930s, that Marxism and its Russian
  form of Bolshevism represented a religious soteriological doctrine that was characterized
  by actual eschatology and the expectation of immediate salvation. He believes that Marxism
  as an ideology and Bolshevism as its practical implementation have the features characteristic
  to a new religious movement of chiliastic type: the presence of a charismatic leader and rallying
  around him, membership based on personal treatment, hatred of the world around full
  of vices, the cult of sacrifice. The author of the presented article believes that this point of
  view is by no means new and existed at the beginning of the 20th century. The article shows
  that even the revolutionary democrats brought together the evangelical and revolutionary
  doctrine. However, they were not interested in chiliastic aspirations in the New Testament,
  but they were interested in denouncing those in power, exposing injustice and lawlessness,
  protecting the poor and oppressed, and sacrificing themselves in order to overcome the suffering
  of others. The article briefly examines the positions of various figures of the Russian
  Social-Democracy regarding the conjugation of Christianity and socialism. The article shows
  that the well-known ethnographer and historian of religion Vladimir Bogoraz (Tan), who
  actively participated in the Russian revolutionary movement, not only used the reinterpreted
  New Testament images and ideas in his literary work but also considered the problem of the
  correlation of Bolshevism and religion in political and historical aspects. The author shows
  that one may see a certain similarity in some evaluations of Bolshevism as a religious doctrine
  in V. Bogoraz and N. Berdyaev. In conclusion, the text of the article by Bogoraz (Tan) “Bolshevism
  as a Religion” with comments is given.
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metadata.value: Подготовлено при поддержке гранта РНФ № 16-18-10083 «Изучение религии в социокультурном контексте эпохи: история религиоведения и интеллектуальная история России XIX — первой половины XX в.».
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 34; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Christianity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: socialism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Bolshevism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Vladimir Bogoraz
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Vladimir Bogoraz on religion and Bolshevism
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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