The relevance of the Dostoevsky's "One special mot about the Slavs" inthe context of the modern "Russian world"

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to discover the parallel lines between the Dostoevsky’s philosophic conception of theRussian world and its future predictions in his political articles of “A Writer’s Diary” and Russia’s current role in politicsregarding Slavic countries and the third parties. With great reference to Dostoevsky’s philosophical prose “A Writer’sDiary” as to a “prophetic revelation”, this has been done by analyzing the history of some relations underpinning thecurrent situation. Through showing what Russia’s role is now to what Dostoevsky called “The Russian world”, thisresearch reveals the most prominent discrepancies in between his predictions and the current state of affairs.