Iz glubiny: Sbornik statei o Russkoi revoliutsii [Out of the Depths: A Collection of Essays on the Russian Revolution]

Paris: YMCA-Press, 1967. Item #1401

1967. Second edition. 331, [5] pages: illustrations. 23 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Wrappers show moderate edge wear and light soiling; faint stains to lower front cover. The interior is slightly marked with pen.

A seminal anthology of Russian philosophical and religious responses to the Revolution of 1917, originally compiled in the early 1920s and here reissued in a rare second edition by YMCA-Press, the leading Russian émigré publisher in Paris. The volume includes foundational essays by leading thinkers of the Russian Silver Age, including Nikolai Berdiaev, Sergei Bulgakov, Petr Struve, Viacheslav Ivanov, and Semyon Frank, among others. First published in Berlin in 1921, this collection served as a spiritual and intellectual reckoning with the catastrophe of Bolshevism and the collapse of the old order, blending political critique with theological reflection and philosophical depth.

The volume opens with an introductory essay by Nikita Struve and Nikolai Poltoratskii and includes such landmark texts as Berdiaev’s Dukhi russkoi revoliutsii [The Spirits of the Russian Revolution], Bulgakov’s Na piru bogov [At the Banquet of the Gods], Ivanov’s Nash iazyk [Our Language], and Struve’s Istoricheskii smysl russkoi revoliutsii i natsional'nye zadachi [The Historical Meaning of the Russian Revolution and National Tasks]. Also featured are essays by S.A. Askoldov, A.S. Izgoev, S.A. Kotliarevskii, P.I. Novgorodtsev, I.A. Pokrovskii, V.N. Murav’ev, and S.L. Frank.

Price: $200.00