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:a mish-mash of [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]], [[Alexander Herzen|Herzen]], [[Mikhail Bakunin|Bakunin]], [[Dmitry Merezhkovsky|Merezhkovsky]] (Chulkov was a former editor of ''[[New Path]]''), [[Henrik Ibsen|Ibsen]], [[George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron|Byron]], [[utopian socialism]], [[Leo Tolstoy|Tolstoy]]'s [[Christian anarchism]], and [[Fyodor Dostoevsky|Dostoyevsky]]'s rejection of necessity.<ref>Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal. ''New Myth, New World: From Nietzsche to Stalinism'', Penn State Press, 2002, ISBN 0-271-02533-6 p. 42</ref> |
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[[Alexander Blok]] and especially [[Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov|Vyacheslav Ivanov]] were supportive of the new doctrine while [[Valery Bryusov]], the editor of the leading Symbolist magazine ''The Balance'', and [[Andrei Bely]] were opposed to it. The resulting controversy raged on the pages of Russian Symbolist magazines until late 1908. |
[[Alexander Blok]] and especially [[Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov|Vyacheslav Ivanov]] were supportive of the new doctrine while [[Valery Bryusov]], the editor of the leading Symbolist magazine ''The Balance'', and [[Andrei Bely]] were opposed to it. The resulting controversy raged on the pages of Russian Symbolist magazines until late 1908. |
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Mystical Anarchism was a tendency within the Russian Symbolist movement after 1906, especially between 1906 and late 1908. It was created and popularized by Georgy Chulkov.
In 1906, Chulkov edited Fakely (Torches), an anthology of Symbolist writing, which called on Russian writers to:
Later in the year Chulkov followed up with a "Mystical Anarchism" manifesto. [2]
The doctrine has been described as:
- a mish-mash of Nietzsche, Herzen, Bakunin, Merezhkovsky (Chulkov was a former editor of New Path), Ibsen, Byron, utopian socialism, Tolstoy's Christian anarchism, and Dostoyevsky's rejection of necessity.[3]
Alexander Blok and especially Vyacheslav Ivanov were supportive of the new doctrine while Valery Bryusov, the editor of the leading Symbolist magazine The Balance, and Andrei Bely were opposed to it. The resulting controversy raged on the pages of Russian Symbolist magazines until late 1908.
Notes
- ^ Joan Delaney Grossman. "Rise and Decline of the 'Literary' journal: 1880-1917" in Literary Journals in Imperial Russia, ed. Deborah A. Martinsen, Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-521-57292-4, p.186
- ^ O misticheskom anarkhizme, 1906, 57p. English translation as On Mystical Anarchism in Russian Titles for the Specialist no. 16, Letchworth, Prideaux P., 1971.
- ^ Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal. New Myth, New World: From Nietzsche to Stalinism, Penn State Press, 2002, ISBN 0-271-02533-6 p. 42
References
- Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal. "The Transmutation of the Symbolist Ethos: Mystical Anarchism and the Revolution of 1905" in Slavic Review 36, No. 4 (December 1977), pp. 608-627.