Philosophers’ ships is the collective name of several boats which, in September and November 1922 carried more than 160 expelled Russian intellectuals from Petrograd to Stettin, Germany.
Other intellectuals were transported in 1923 by train to Riga, Latvia or by boat from Odessa to Constantinople.
Three detention lists included 228 people, 32 of them students.
Among the expellees were these four Christian thinkers whose books I have read and would endorse:
See also, Chamberlain, Lesley, Lenin’s Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia, St Martin’s Press, 2007
HT Wikipedia
thanks for enlightening me John. I was not aware. And sadly, I’m not aware of these writers either. I guess I have so work to do!
I found this bit of history only last month while ‘googling’ Sergius Bulgakov, whose book, The Bride of the Lamb, I have been reading. “The Bride” was published posthumously in 1945 and not published in English translation until 2002.
All of these Eastern Orthodox writers are rewarding, and I like the Greek ‘fathers’ more than the Latins as well – but Greek Orthodox ecclesiology and worship don’t appeal to me.