E. MOLLER. Russischer Intellekt in europdischer Krise. I V. Kireevskij (1806 - 1856). Bohlau Verlag. Koln - Graz. 1966 (XII + 512 S.). Modern Western historiography is characterized by a great interest in the problems of social thought in Russia in the 19th century. Bourgeois authors turn not only to the progressive, but also to its conservative trends, the insufficient study of which by our science sometimes gives room for the most arbitrary constructions. The book by E. Muller, a West German historian and researcher at the Institute for the Study of Eastern Europe in Tübingen, is devoted to the analysis of the philosophical, sociological and theological views of one of the initiators of Slavophilism, I. V. Kireevsky. This topic has not yet become the subject of special research in our literature; if the statements of I. V. Kireevsky in the 1840s and 1850s are often used to illustrate the views of Slavophiles, then his critical articles of the 1820s and 1830s attracted the attention of Soviet researchers only relatively recently. 1 E. Muller used the existing literature, and also attracted new ones materials stored in the Manuscript Department of the V. I. Lenin Library and in TsGALI 2 . As an appendix to the book napecha- 1 Yu. Mann. Ivan Kireevsky. Voprosy Literatury, 1965, No. 11; izd. Russkaya filosofskaya estetika (1820-1830 - e gody) [Russian Philosophical Aesthetics (1820-1830-e gody)]. Moscow, 1969. 2 Э. Мюллеру принадлежат также работы: "Zwischen Liberalismus und utopischem Sozialismus Slavophile sozialtheoretische Perspektiven zur Reform vor 1861" ("Jahrbiicher fur Geschichte Osteuropas", Wiesbaden, 1965, page 192 tana in Russian "Note on the direction and methods of the initial education of the people in Russia", which I. V. Kireevsky wrote in 1839 for the trustee of the Moscow Educational District S. G. Stroganov3 . The book is divided into two parts: the first one is devoted to the journalistic activity of I. V. Kireevsky; the second one attempts to sy ... Read more