The article gives an overview of historiosophical thoughts on revolution in the works of Russian emigrant thinkers of the 20'* century (B. Yakovenko, S. Frank, L. Karsavin, G. Fedotov, A. Solzhenitsyn). All the considered authors share the effort to find the reasons for revolution, understand the laws of its development. Revolution, interpreted from the historiosophical point of view, appears as a national illness that is difficult to be cured. The author believes that Russian emigrant thinkers gave such answers to the question on the essence of revolution that are still relevant in the beginning of the 2V century.

This is the first publication of parts from B. Yakovenko’s «History of the Great Russian Revolution», two prefaces, where the author explains his position on the revolution of 1917 and his personal and philosophical approach to the subject in question. The introductory article by A. Shitov explores the political views of B. Yakovenko, sheds light on the circumstances, in which «History of the Great Russian Revolution» was written, and failed attempts made by the author to publish its manuscript.

In this paper I discuss Jean-Luc Marion’s «reduction to givenness». Comparing Marion’s approach to gift with that of Derrida, I show that this enlargement of the area of phenomenology goes in line with the main trends of the contemporary French phenomenology. Furthermore, I demonstrate that Marion views the role of the philosophizing subject in quite a traditional way - as the sovereign holder of absolute truth.

It is shown that A. Herzen in «Letters on the Study of Nature» comes to the unusual concept of history in which the main idea is the opposition in the history of two forms of Christianity: the false medieval form associated with the church and the true form expressed in the philosophical systems of pantheistic type (G. Bruno, J. Böhme, G.W. Leibniz, I.G. Fichte). The basis for such interpretation of history Herzen finds in the later philosophy of Fichte; under the influence of Herzen and Dostoevsky the same historical concept was later formulated by F. Nietzsche in his treatise «The Antichrist».

Where is the root of deviations between the representative of westerners A.I. Hertzen and slavophils? What could be the point of their substantial unity? Is their nature one and the same or two different ones? Hertzens view was closely connected with slavophils views of Russian community, historical mission of Russia and the character of Western development. But their vision of religion was obviously different, and the author of this article analyses unconscious religiousness in Hertzens atheism.

The article considers the key ideas of Gerzen’s historiosophy: «uncombed improvisation of history», a problem of variability of historical process, a role of accident and purposeful activity of the person. This ideas are interpreted by the author in its accord to modern socially-philosophical knowledge.

The article examines the struggle of A. Herzen against Russia’s despotic regime and for liberation of the peasants from serfdom, his search for laws of the society’s historical development, ways of its reorganization and harmonization of the socially active person. The author shows that the socialist reforms, proposed by Herzen, were impossible under the historical conditions of his time.

This work is dedicated to the perception of the key concepts of M.M. Bakhtin and his Circle in the Brazilian scientific and educational context.

The article deals with the interaction between the Orthodox and Buddhist cultures in the cultural space of Russia. The author notes that the relations between the Buddhist and Orthodox denominations are characterized by complementarity and tolerance.

The article is devoted to the analysis of ideas connected with consideration of Asia as the history source of mankind in V. Khlebnikov’s works, revealing motives and reminiscences in his writings, defining their role in the poet’s artistic concept.