| Titre | Les idées de G. P. Fedotov dans les années 1930 | |
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| Auteur | Danièle Beaune | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 26, no 3-4, juillet-décembre 1985 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 353-373 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Danièle Beaune, The ideas of G. P. Fedotov in the 1930's.
In 1930, the so-called "post-revolutionary" trends engaged in the research of a new "national conscience" assert themselves among the socialists belonging to the Russian emigration. Fedotov is a representative of their moderate wing. In his publications of that time, and especially in the journal Novyi grad of which he is the editor, he develops the four principal domains of his thought: the State, the Church, socialism, liberty.
The State does not represent for Fedotov a blind power, nor a legal state, but an organizing force which ensures the geographical coherence of the country on the national level (in which pre-eminence is granted to Russia) and on the social one. The Church represented by its elite plays a cultural part (at present on the decline), a political one (side by side with monarchy or an Orthodox republic), and a social one (for instance monasteries of the Great North). In view of the present-day divorce between the Church and the society, the social part is entrusted to laymen and termed "socialism."
In the nineteenth century, Christian socialism, respectful of the values of persons, inspired the German social-democracy but was alien to the spirit of Marx and Lenin, who produced the "new socialisms ," the last avatar of which are Stalinism and Nazism. However, socialism must not be globally condemned. Instead, new formulae must be found for a fairer repartition of resources. Fedotov proposes a "constructivist" socialism, based on ethics of work.
The latter which admits a minimum of spoliation of individual property and the development of the administrative organ, comes inevitably up against the principles of liberty; economic liberty first of all, political liberty and that of conscience next. And Fedotov's work, rich elsewhere in concrete historical teachings, turns there into a constrained Utopia. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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