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«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «POLITOLOGIYA. RELIGIOVEDENIE»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «POLITICAL SCIENCE AND RELIGION STUDIES»
ISSN 2073-3380 (Print)

List of issues > Series «Political Science and Religion Studies». 2022. Vol 41

Discourse of Secular Salvation in Russian Communism

Author(s)
A. E. Smirnov
Abstract
The radical ideological doctrines of Russian communism of the late 19th – early 20th century gave rise to the ideal of a revolutionary and the corresponding way of existence, approaching the limit to the religious. The article shows a set of practices that constituted the phenomenon of secular revolutionary salvation. Using a methodology of discursive analysis, the author shows the complexity and ambiguity of communist soteriology. Salvation was constituted by different practices and could have different existential content on a case-by-case basis. Therefore, it is legitimate to talk not about the presence of the phenomenon of secular salvation in Russian communism, but about the discourses of such.
About the Authors
Smirnov Aleksey Evgenyevich, Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Professor, Department of General Humanitarian and Socio-Economic Disciplines, Irkutsk Law Institute (Branch) of the University of Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, 1, Shevtsov st., Irkutsk, 664035, Russian Federation, e-mail: aesmir@mail.ru
For citation
Smirnov A.E. Discourse of Secular Salvation in Russian Communism. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Political Science and Religion Studies, 2022, vol. 41, pp. 102-111. https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2022.41.102 (in Russian)
Keywords
discourse, salvation, Russian communism, practitioners, subject.
UDC
291.5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2022.41.102
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