"Leontiev was the most pessimistic of all the historian-naturalists. Like his contemporary Donoso Cortez, the Spanish diplomat and thinker, whose books he had never read, Leontiev prophesied that there would be a bloody revolution in the coming century—not in the West as Karl Marx had expected, but in economically backward Russia. "Who knows," Leontiev wrote in one of his articles, "perhaps, like the Jews who never expected a Teacher of the New Faith to issue from their womb, we shall also unexpectedly give birth to an Anti-Christ in the next hundred years. . . ." According to him, a tyrannical socialist society would govern the former Russian Empire, and the new dictators would have more power than all the dynasties of the Ruriks and the Romanovs. In Dostoyevsky's The Possessed we also find a grotesque philosopher of a modern totalitarian state in the person of Shigalev. The author himself, however, believed that Shigalevism could never succeed in his Holy Russia, but Leontiev had no such illusion, and he sharply attacked and ridiculed Dostoyevsky's "rosy-colored Christianity." Unfortunately, Leontiev proved a better prophet than the creator of The Brothers Karamazov."
"In Leontiev's writings we find some other predictions. He stated that Germany would be strong enough to make one or two but not more than three wars: that Russia would find herself threatened by a fierce and powerful China; and that modern technology would lead to universal destruction after horrible apocalyptic conflicts."
- The Other Russian: Konstantin Leontiev by George Ivask
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"In Leontiev's writings we find some other predictions. He stated that Germany would be strong enough to make one or two but not more than three wars: that Russia would find herself threatened by a fierce and powerful China; and that modern technology would lead to universal destruction after horrible apocalyptic conflicts."
- The Other Russian: Konstantin Leontiev by George Ivask
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