RUSSIAN NATIONAL LIBERAL PUBLISIZM ABOUT THE ESSENCE OF GERMAN MILITARISM DURING WORLD WAR I
This article deals with analysis of national liberal publicism during World War I and is aimed at defining where the most prominent Russian philosophic publicists saw the origins of German militarism and how they interpreted its inner essence. The key challenge is an attempt to determine the connection they saw between German militarism, that have reached the highest stage of its development in the early 20th century and caused World War I, and the whole previous German culture, that had its most evident manifestations in Kant's philosophy according to their point of view. Despite the fact that positions of some publicists were moderate, their voices could not muffle the general anti-German message characteristic of the national liberal publicism of the period considered, that had a definite influence on the formation of the enemy image in the person of the Germans in the Russian mass consciousness during World War I. This article is primarily based on the materials of the magazine "Russkaja Mysl" ("Russian Thought"), that became the center of philosophical and political debate about war, patriotism, "Germanism" and "Russianism", German militarism at that time.