Abstract
The article examines the reception and creative response of Russian Silver Age historiosophy to the works of O. Spengler. Special attention is paid to the very fi rst and even now most valuable comments on “The Decline of Europe” in Russia – a collection of articles “Oswald Spengler and the Decline of Europe” published in 1922, as well as some later most interesting interpretations of O. Spengler in Russia. The author analyzes P.M. Bicilli’s concept of “secondary barbarism” and P. Sorokin’s concept of civilizational cycles. He shows the heuristic nature of these concepts for the analysis of the modern socio-cultural situation and its inclusion in the tradition of Russian historiosophical thought. It is shown that Russian philosophers were not only followers or critics of O. Spengler, but also developed his “Slavophil” ideas.
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