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Other relevant keywords: border, pessimism   Boris Khazanov (1928–2022) Boris Khazanov (a pseudonym of Gennady Faibusovich), a writer and an essayist, is one of the most significant representatives of Russian–Jewish philosophical personalism. Born in Leningrad, he was educated in classical philology at Moscow State University and was arrested in 1949 for “anti-Soviet” activity. Upon his ..

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Other relevant keywords: Existentialism, Narod (people), Tragedy, Zen   Grigory Pomerants (1918–2013) Of all late-Soviet and post-Soviet Russian thinkers, Grigory Solomonovich Pomerants was the most persistently engaged in social debates about the value of personality and about the threats posed by totalitarian and post-totalitarian society. Pomerants was a philosopher and Orientalist by education. He graduated from ..

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Other relevant keywords: Inequality; High- and low-voltage people; Equalizers; Competitors; Masters of knowledge; Masters of things   Igor Yefimov (1937–2020) Igor Markovich Yefimov was a Russian-American philosopher, writer, and publisher whose work bridged engineering precision with philosophical inquiry. His major contributions include systematic analyses of human inequality and freedom, the development of a unique post-Kantian ..

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