Russia, or the fourth question of philosophy

The nebula of the historical past of Russia, the specificity of its historical life in comparison with the West and East led to various versions of the risk of the "face of Russia". The author of the book gathered together and in detail investigated all the "answers" received by the philosophy of Russia over two centuries, associated them with the main world philosophical systems, historical events, against which the “search for Russia” took place, with Russian literature and the personal fate of each of the galaxy of outstanding Russians thinkers. The book is written in the genre of intellectual investigation.

According to the well -known definition of Leo Tolstoy, the personality level is expressed by a shot, in which the denominator is how a person represents himself, and the numerator - how he is evaluated by others. The same approach is applicable to any people, but it acquires special meaning in relation to Russia, which over the past few centuries, the efforts of its best minds tried to determine itself and its significance in world history.

In the book "Russia, or the fourth question", taking the unity of the fate of mankind as a “numerator”, and Russia"s diverse ideas about itself, the author of the book, tried to bring the objective and extra -historical “formula of Russia” as “denominator”, which As a result, it determines the new sociological concept - mirage civilization.

As you move to this formula, it would seem, well-known and long-studied facts from the history of Russia are revealed in a new way. The reader will receive a clear idea of ​​how the "era" of Alexander I, "Age of Nicholas I," time "of Alexander II," Time "of Alexander III and who was the last Russian emperor Nicholas II. And also finds out whether the Russians and the British had common ancestors, why the people in Russia revere the Virgin and indifferent to the figure of Christ, from where the Russian intelligentsia originates and why it is always opposed by the Russian authorities, about which Tolstoy wrote the novel "War and Peace", as And why the Silver Age phenomenon arose, for which Lenin hated Russia, why the Chinese and Manchu were afraid to cross the Amur and did not populate Siberia and the Far East for thousands of years - and many other direct and comparative facts of Russian and world history. About all this and not only in the book of Russia, or the fourth question of philosophy (A. Raskin)