Русская эмиграция и США. Ф.А. Степун и М.М. Карпович (предисловие к публикации писем Ф.А. Степуна М.М. Карповичу)

Вопросы философии. 2021. № 11. С. 138–146.

Kantor V.

The author examines a geopolitical line in the development of Russian philoso­phy in emigration. Not only the Russian revolution of 1917, not only the Nazi revolution of 1933–1935, but the Second World War changed the balance of power on the intellectual map of the world. Hitler was defeated by the Soviet Union with the help of the Anglo-American allies. As a result, two blocks emerged. They got a taste for the disposal of Europe and other countries of the United States, the USSR also strengthened, expanding the area of its influence (“Eastern bloc”). Should emigrants return to Russia? Bunin tried, but at the bor­der he turned back after reading articles about Akhmatova and Zoshchenko in the Pravda newspaper. Remain in a devastated and half-starved Europe, which has no time for emigrants? Or choose the third path where the track has al­ready been paved. Russian intellectuals from Germany have already settled in the United States, many have taken root there, some have returned. This, in essence, was the second emigration, the continuation of the first. There was already an experience of flight, but there was also a craving for German culture, which, despite the German Nazism sweeping through the world, Russian thinkers highly valued. They – as it should be in trouble – held on to each other. An example of this intellectual collaboration is Karpovich and Stepun.

Keywords: революция, Германия, США, СССР, Россия, эмиграция, война, мемуары, Russia, USA, USSR, revolution, war, emigration, memoirs, Карпович М.М., F.A. Stepun, Ф.А. Степун, Germany, Karpovich

Publication based on the results of: German influence as an intellectual problem of Russian culture (2021)