N A Setnitsky

2024. Vol.9. №3.

Nikolai Setnitsky and Alexander Chayanov: On ideals, exploitation, non-capitalist systems and regulation of nature

Oct 25 2024

Nikulin A. M. Nikolai Setnitsky and Alexander Chayanov: On ideals, exploitation, non-capitalist systems and regulation of nature // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2024. V.9. №3. P. 47-72.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2024-9-3-47-72

Annotation

The author conducts a comparative biographical analysis to consider the social-philosophical and political-economic views and the interdisciplinary intellectual heritage of the remarkable Russian scientists N. A. Setnitsky and A. V. Chayanov on the ideals of social development, features of capitalist and non-capitalist economic systems, issues of regulating the relationship between man and nature in the 1920s–1930s. The article identifies the fundamental worldview ideas of the “agrarian-relativist” Chayanov and the “apocalyptic cosmist” Setnitsky, which determined their theoretical-methodological approaches to the cognition and transformation of reality, focusing on the comparative analytical assessment of their utopian and futurological forecasts and projects. The author concludes about the significance of the intellectual heritage of Setnitsky and Chayanov for the study of contemporary political, economic and environmental issues in Russia and the world.

Keywords

N. A. Setnitsky, A. V. Chayanov, capitalism, non-capitalist systems, city, village, exploitation, nature, utopia, cosmism.

About the author

Alexander M. Nikulin, PhD (Economics), Head of the Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Vernadskogo Prosp., 82, Moscow, 119571, Russia.
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2024. Vol.9. №3.

The fight against hunger in the philosophy of Russian cosmism: N. F. Fedorov and Universal Cause collections

Oct 25 2024

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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