Gacheva A. G. The fight against hunger in the philosophy of Russian cosmism: N. F. Fedorov and Universal Cause collections // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2024. V.9. №3. P. 25-46.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2024-9-3-25-46

Annotation

The article is the first part of the study of the issues of hunger in the philosophy of Russian cosmism. Its representatives believed that we need to study natural processes and their management to solve the problem of hunger, emphasizing that regulation requires complete knowledge and universal solidarity. The article examines the ideas of N. F. Fedorov, who suggested to consider the issue of overcoming hunger in the Christian context, defining the regulation of nature as the fulfillment of the commandment to “possess land”. The author reconstructs the dynamics of the perception of the hunger problem in the first collection Universal Cause (1914) and in the draft of the second collection compiled by A. K. Gorsky and N. A. Setnitsky in 1920 during the devastation of the Civil War. The article also presents the results of the analysis of the one-day newspaper To the Rescue! published under the famine of 1921–1922.

Keywords

Philosophy of cosmism, problem of hunger, regulation of nature, legacy of N. F. Fedorov, A. K. Gorsky, N. A. Setnitsky, Universal Cause.

About the author

Anastasia G. Gacheva, DSc (Philology), Leading Researcher, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Head of the Center for Cosmism Studies, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences; Chief Librarian and Researcher, N. F. Fedorov Library No. 180 in the South-West Administrative District of Moscow. 25A, bld. 1, Povarskaya st., Moscow, 121069.
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