The New
Age of Russia: Occult and Esoteric Dimensions, Birgit Menzel, Michael Hagemeister and Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, ed.s
(Munich: Otto Sagner, 2011), pp. 273-92, euro 48
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Occult and
esoteric ideas became deeply embedded in Russian culture long before the
Bolshevik Revolution. After the Revolution, occult ideas were manifested in
literature, the humanities and the sciences as well. Although the Soviet
government discouraged and eventually prohibited metaphysical speculation, that
same government used the Occult for its own purposes and even funded research
on it. In Stalin's time, occultism disappeared from public view, but it revived
clandestinely in the post-Stalin Thaw and became a truly popular phenomenon in
post-Soviet Russia. From cosmism to shamanism, from space exploration to
Kabbalah, from neo-paganism to science fiction, the field is wide. Everyone
interested in the occult and esoteric will appreciate this book, because it
documents their continued importance in Russia and raises new issues for
research and discussion.
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