Mystical Anarchism was a tendency within the
Russian Symbolist movement after 1906, especially between 1906 and late 1908. It was created and popularized by
Georgy Chulkov.
In 1906, Chulkov edited Fakely (Torches), an anthology of Symbolist writing, which called on Russian writers to:
abandon Symbolism and
Decadence and move forward to "new
mystical experience".[1]
Later in the year Chulkov followed up with a "Mystical Anarchism" manifesto.[2]
Alexander Blok and especially
Vyacheslav Ivanov were supportive of the new doctrine while
Valery Bryusov, the editor of the leading Symbolist magazine The Balance, and
Andrei Bely were opposed to it. The resulting controversy raged on the pages of Russian Symbolist magazines until late 1908.
^Joan Delaney Grossman. "Rise and Decline of the 'Literary' journal: 1880-1917" in Literary Journals in Imperial Russia, ed. Deborah A. Martinsen, Cambridge University Press, 1997,
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^O misticheskom anarkhizme, 1906, 57p. English translation as On Mystical Anarchism in Russian Titles for the Specialist no. 16, Letchworth, Prideaux P., 1971.
^Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal. New Myth, New World: From Nietzsche to Stalinism, Penn State Press, 2002,
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References
Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal. "The Transmutation of the Symbolist
Ethos: Mystical Anarchism and the
Revolution of 1905" in Slavic Review 36, No. 4 (December 1977), pp. 608–627.