Soviet Atlantis: Between Science Fiction and Esoteric Communities

Stanislav Panin

doi:10.18485/kis.2020.52.171.7

Stanislav Panin Rice University, Houston

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18485/kis.2020.52.171.7

Кључне речи: Советская литература, Атлантида, научная фантастика, символизм, Западный эзотеризм, анархо-мистицизм

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Статья посвящена рассмотрению истории легенды об Атлантиде в российской культуре ХХ века. Анализируются истоки представлений об Атлантиде в литературных и эзотерических кругах начала ХХ века. Показано, что литературный образ Атлантиды в это время формировался под влиянием эзотерических учений о погибших цивилизациях, укорененных в теософии, антропософии и французском оккультизме XIX века. С нарастанием атеистической пропаганды в советский период художественная и научно-популярная литература становятся главными средствами сохранения и передачи легенды об Атлантиде, в то время как ее эзотерическая генеалогия отходит на второй план. Однако с началом новой массовой волны интереса к различным формам духовности в конце 1980-х, связанной с либерализацией советской культуры в ходе перестройки и последующим распадом Советского Союза, легенде об Атлантиде, сохраненной в художественной литературе, возвращается временно отошедшее на второй план эзотерическое наполнение.

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