Presently about halfway through this work of Berdyaev's after reading "Slavery and Freedom" a few months ago. Kind of ironic that Berdyaev wrote these things but himself became a slave to Russian messianism. You see, Berdyaev is not actually Russian but Ukrainian born in the Kyiv region. Of course, he was born there when it was part of the Russian Empire but that doesn't actually make him Russian, just a loyal subject of the Czar. Despite that and the fact that I live in Ukraine, he has some very valuable insight and writes very much from an Orthodox Christian perspective. So, I am willing to accept that he got duped like so many others since his depth overcomes those failings.