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that
is,
the Populists' Messianic faith in the Russian people, their con–
viction that Russia would show the way to the West in achieving the
ideal new society, and their vision of this society as a Russian Utopia
of Christian equality. One can only regret that, having taken so much
from the Populists, the Russian Marxists did not assimilate a bit more
-they could well have used some of the Populists' generous humanity,
ethical idealism and belief in the supreme importance of the individual.
One swallow certainly does not make a summer, least of all in Soviet
Russia; but it is perhaps a promising augury for the future that, after
many years of oblivion, a new one-volume selection of Mikhailovsky's
literary essays has just recently been published in the Soviet Union.
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