"Anarchy of God, Anarchy of Destruction"
“Anarchy of God, Anarchy of Destruction” was a paper originally started as an outline for a Russian Intellectual History course while I was at the University of Missouri. The initial thought was to look at three 19th century Russian intellectuals who wrote on the problems with authority and compare their solutions. The three intellectuals were noted Slavophile Konstantin Aksakov, the revolutionary anarchist Mikhail Bakunin and the author and Christian anarchist Lev Tolstoy. When adapted for the Central Slavic Council conference in November 2014, the focus shifted from their differences (which those with even the most cursory knowledge of the three thinkers would find obvious) to their similarities. The resulting papers finds an interesting coorelation between Tolstoy and Bakunin, with Aksakov's philosphy qucikly diverging from the other two.
This paper was presented at the Central Slavic Council conference in St. Louis, Missouri on November 9th, 2014.
