The article continues a series of publications in which Russian cosmism is studied as an original cultural phenomenon generated by the specifics of the period of «Gorbachev’s» perestroika. It is shown that the features of the political culture of Russians described by Young are generally correct. The merit of Young’s concept is the detailed substantiation of the popularity of the ideas of...
Michael Hagemeister’s monograph dedicated to N. F. Fedorov, published in 1989, became the first fundamental research in the West, which is devoted to Russian cosmism. Hagemeister highly appreciates the ethical component of N. F. Fedorov’s teaching about the need to remember people who have passed away but is critical of the faith of followers of this teaching in the possibility of resurrection....