Fifteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

Heritage assumes a crucial role in Dostoevsky’s thought — it is one of the pivotal points of all his political theory. In the Russia of his time, dominated by nihilistic terror, addicted to a blind obedience to the economic and social theories coming from Europe, Dostoevsky saw, as the only medicine to cure the evils of his time, the rediscovery of the ancient Russian values, linked to the earth, to work in peasant communities, to brotherhood, to Christianity. That same Russia that had turned its back on its cultural heritage, to look at Europe through the door of St. Petersburg, would now have to rediscover itself: looking back to the past to see the future. This thought can still be useful. It teaches us the importance of the roots, of the ethos, and shows us how the progress (the true progress) cannot ignore the people — social base of the country.