In What Ways and How Is Our Liberalism Harmful?

First English translation of Konstantin Leontiev’s landmark 1880 critique of Russian liberalism - with historical footnotes.Diplomat, novelist, and philosopher Konstantin Leontiev (1831-1891) is one of the most prophetic and neglected conservative thinkers of the nineteenth century. In these two landmark articles, published in the Warsaw Daily in 1880 and now translated into English for the first time, Leontiev delivers a devastating diagnosis of Russian liberalism and a bold alternative vision rooted in Byzantine Orthodox conservatism.Writing just one year before the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, Leontiev warned that Russia’s imitation of Western liberal democracy was not a path to stability but a road to socialist revolution. Within thirty years of his death, that revolution had arrived.This volume includes:First complete English translation of both articlesHistorical footnotes illuminating key figures, legal cases, and cultural referencesForeword introducing Leontiev’s life, philosophy, and historical contextAnalysis of his famous theory of civilizational decay - flowering, simplifying, collapsePerfect for readers interested in:Russian history and philosophyOrthodox Christian thoughtConservative political philosophyByzantine civilization and its legacy19th century European intellectual historyProphetic critiques of liberalism and progressivism