Abstract

MEYER, Jean. "Jesuit machinations" in the Russian imaginary. Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2015, vol.36, n.142, pp.79-104. ISSN 2448-7554.

Tsarist Russia of the 19th century witnessed the virulent emergence of a conspiracy theory believed to threaten the authentic -clearly Christian 346 Orthodox- soul of Russia. The principal binomial of that conspiracy -Catholicism / Jesuits- was nothing new, as it began with the very origins of the Company of Jesus in the 16th century. However, in a broad European world affected by the diverse crises of the traditional monarchies that existed from the time of the French Revolution, the phantasm of the Jesuits as Anti-Christ emerged once again amidst a political debate that sought to strengthen the traditional character of Russian Orthodoxy. The text presents the parameters for an understanding of the fundamental elements in the construction of the idea of a conspiracy that, in structural terms, hardly deviates from another type of conspiracy theory, one that included the participation of intellectuals of the stature of Dostoyevsky.

Keywords : conspiracy; Dostoyevsky; identity; churches; Jesuits; memory; Poland; Russia.

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