Обшество Достоевского в Праге: идея и реализация
Dostoevsky Community in Prague: the Idea and Realization

Summary/Abstract: Dostoevsky Community, later named The First International Dostoevsky Community (Prague, 1930-1938), was created to enable the cooperation of the Slavistics in Czechoslovakia and promotion of Dostoevsky’s literary heritage in the West. Conceived (by intiative of A. L. Bem) as a scientific association, it became mainly propagandistic and ideological. It had happened though not under the influence of „decadent“ mood of the Russian emigrants, – as the Soviet academic critique asserted, – but under the influence of a tracing back to T. G. Masaryk logic of philosophical approach to Dostoevsky study in Czechoslovakia. The Masaryk followers had been inculcating Dostoevsky in the Slavs‘ mind as a vaccine against spiritual slackness and a complex of playing secondary roles with regard to the West, as a method of strength’s mobilization in a fight with its „titanism“.

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