Book Overview
On October 30, 1921 Russia was preparing to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Fyodor Dostoyevsky but it was unlikely that any such festival would take place. A terrible storm has passed over Russia, destroying the whole fabric of our European Civilization. The Revolution, long ago predicted by Dostoyevsky, burst upon us after a disastrous war. The gulf which for two centuries had been widening between our peasants and our intellectuals, became an abyss. Our intellectuals, intoxicated by European Utopias, were advancing towards the West, while our people, faithful to the tradition of their ancestors, had set their faces to the East. The Russian Nihilists and Anarchists desired to introduce European atheism into our country, whereas our deeply religious peasantry remained faithful to Christ. Book jacket. This description may be from another edition of this product.
