Criticism
Solovyov is criticized by Dmitry Galkovsky in the 1988 philosophic novel The Infinite Deadlock. Galkovsky views Solovyov's adoption and later renunciation of nihilist views as evidence of opportunism. He also characterizes Solovyov's writings on theocracy as a "parodic hybrid of slavophilic nationalism with Western nihilism." In Galkovsky's interpretation Solovyov emerges as an impostor, whose primary goal was to create a caricatured form of religious conservatism that would draw audiences away from more "authentic" nationalists such as Yuri Samarin.
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