The New Age of Russia Occult and Esoteric Dimensions   
edited by
Birgit Menzel,Michael Hagemeister andBernice Glatzer Rosenthal

https://www.academia.edu/17977459/The_New_Age_of_Russia._Occult_and_Esoteric_Dimensions

Introduction

Birgit Menze

I Prerevolutionary Roots and Early Soviet Manifestations

The Occult and Popular Entertainment in Late Imperial Russia
 Julia Mannherz  29

The History of Esotericism in Soviet Russia in the 1920s–1930s
Konstantin Burmistrov  52

The Occultist Aleksandr Barchenko and the Soviet Secret Police(1923–1938)
Oleg Shishkin  81

From Synarchy to Shambhala: 
The Role of Political Occultismand Social Messianism in the Activities of  Nicholas Roerich
 Markus Osterrieder  101

Konstantin Tsiolkovskii and the Occult Roots of Soviet Space Travel
 Michael Hagemeister  135

II Manifestations in the Soviet Period (1930–1985)

Occult and Esoteric Movements in Russia from the 1960s to the 1980s
Birgit Menzel 151

Away from the Globe. Occultism, Esotericism and Literature in Russiaduring the 1960s–1980s
Leonid Heller  186

Guests from Outer Space. Occult Aspects of Soviet Science Fiction
 Matthias Schwartz  211

 Totalitarian Utopia, the Occult, and Technological Modernity in Russia:The Intellectual Experience of Cosmism
 Marlène Laruelle  238

III The Occult Revival in Late and Post Soviet Russia(1985 to the Present)

Occult and Esoteric Doctrines after the Collapse of Communism
Demyan Belyaev 259

Occult Dissident Culture: The Case of Aleksandr Dugin
 Mark Sedgwick 273

The Rodnoverie Movement: The Search for Pre-Christian Ancestry and the Occult
 Marlène Laruelle 293

Through an Occult Prism: The Bolshevik Revolution in Three Post-Soviet Novels
 Marina Aptekman  311

Shamanism in the Russian Intelligentsia (Post-Soviet Space and Time)
Natalia Zhukovskaia 328

Competing Legacies, Competing Visions of Russia:The Roerich Movement(s)
 in Post-Soviet Russia
 John McCannon  348

On the Way from Border Conflicts: Transpersonal Psychology in Russia
Boris Falikov  370

IV Comparative Aspects, Continuity and Change

Occultism as a Response to a Spiritual Crisis
Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal  390

On Reading Russian Mystical Literature Upside-Down
 Jeffrey J. Kripal 421

Select Bibliography
 Michael Hagemeister
432

 About the Contributors