Books by Nicholas Berdyaev
Dostoevsky
by Nicholas Berdyaev
This puts the revolutions in perspective as more than a rush for jeans and fridges. Berdyaev quotes Dostoevsky’s Notes From The Underground, saying: “Man’s whole business is to prove to himself that he is a man and not a cogwheel.” Berdyaev and Dostoevsky focus on the freedom we have to choose between good and evil and this makes the book relevant not only to 1989 but to today as well, because, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been a reluctance among people - both 'underground' and “overground” to accept the burden of responsibility that comes with freedom.
Interviews where books by Nicholas Berdyaev were recommended
The best books on The Fall of Communism, recommended by Nick Thorpe
Five recommendations from the BBC’s Central Europe correspondent, who witnessed the collapse of Yugoslavia, popular uprisings in Bulgaria and Serbia, and the transformation of non-violent to violent resistance in Kosovo
