Nikolai Berdyaev Author

Nikolai Berdyaev had a cultural rather than political abhorrence of the Bolshevik regime, and in 1922, he was expelled from Russia for what was considered his religious mysticism. Among his many works are The Russian Idea and Origin of Russian Communism. Maria Nemcova Banerjee is professor of Russian at Smith College. She is the author of Terminal Paradox: The Novels of Milan Kundera.