USSR as a Kingdom of Antichrist in the Works of Merezhkovsky and Bulgakov

Student: Sereda Irina

Educational Programme: Philosophy (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2016

This paper is an overview of the views of the two Russian thinkers on the Soviet Union. The main goal of this paper is to reveal the image of the Soviet Union, which these authors give in their works, and to identify all the reasons for which they refer to the USSR as the kingdom of evil. Despite the fact that they both have argued against the USSR, they make it quite differently. Dmitry Merezhkovsky could see Russia after the revolution only from abroad, while Mikhail Bulgakov was directly involved in the life of Soviet Russia.

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