Knowra Russian cosmism Russian cosmism Russian cosmism is a philosophical and religious movement that treats human beings as participants in a collective project to overcome death and transform the cosmos through science and moral action.
Nikolai Fyodorov : A Russian philosopher who argued that humanity had a common duty to resurrect all the dead and regulate nature. His project of universal resurrection supplied cosmism with its most radical ethical demand.
Common task : Nikolai Fyodorov’s principle that all people should cooperate to resurrect the dead and overcome humanity’s dependence on nature. It states the collective duty that turns cosmism from speculation into a proposed human project.
Russian Orthodox Christianity : The Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition practiced in Russia, shaped by liturgy, theology, and church institutions. Cosmism reworked Orthodox themes of resurrection and human participation in divine creation.
Russian avant-garde : A group of early twentieth-century Russian artistic movements that sought radical new forms and social purposes for art. Cosmism’s cosmic scale and transformative ambitions resonated with artists reimagining humanity and society.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky : A Russian scientist and rocket theorist who imagined humanity’s future expansion into space. He developed cosmism’s cosmic future into a vision of space settlement and human transformation.
Resurrection of the dead : The restoration of deceased people to life, understood in religious traditions as divine action and in cosmism as a future human task. Fyodorov made universal resurrection the movement’s defining goal.
Russian religious philosophy : A diverse modern tradition of Russian thought addressing God, freedom, history, and the spiritual meaning of human life. Cosmism emerged within this wider effort to reconcile religious belief with modern intellectual life.
Soviet spaceflight : The Soviet Union’s crewed missions into space, beginning with Yuri Gagarin’s 1961 flight. Cosmist writings helped furnish a cultural prehistory for Soviet aspirations in space, without directly determining their engineering.
Vladimir Solovyov : A Russian religious philosopher whose thought joined Christian theology, ethics, and a vision of spiritual unity. His account of humanity’s spiritual vocation helps explain cosmism’s religious dimension.
Regulation of nature : The deliberate direction of natural processes by human knowledge and collective action. Cosmism presents mastery of natural forces as necessary to defeat death and sustain life.
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