Voskresenie

The Voskresenie was a left-leaning, quasi-Masonic sect, which existed in Russia around the turn of the twentieth century. In the 1920s the group was led by the mystic and philosopher Aleksander Meier and counted within its ranks a number of influential figures, such as philologist and literary theorist Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, alongside Lev Vasilievich Pumpianski, and Mariia Iudina. The group sought to support the Bolsheviks' economic policy but oppose their atheistic cultural policy, and in so doing to 'renew humanity and the construction of communism' (Brandist, p.28).

References

Craig Brandist The Bakhtin Circle: Philosophy, Culture and Politics, London, Pluto Press