HUMANKIND’S COMMON CAUSE BY N.F. FYODOROV IN THE RUSSIAN LITERATURE OF THE ХХ - EARLY ХХI CENTURIES (A. PLATONOV, YU. TRIFONOV, V. SHUKSHIN, L. BORODIN, V. BEREZIN AND OTHERS)

The article reveals the humanitarian ideas of the scientific work titled “Humankind’s Common Cause” by N. F. Fyodorov, religious thinker and founder of Russian Cosmism, and considers their display in the prose of Russian writers of the ХХ - early ХХI centuries based on selected works. The classic of Russian literature, genius writer Andrei Platonov along with the writers, who preserved his best practices of writing and moved forward with his philosophical and aesthetic search, in the works considered in this article follow the thoughts of N.F. Fyodorov expressed in “Humankind’s Common Cause” on irreconcilability with death by means of science and uniting people in fraternity and labor to prevent the world’s collapse due to wars, mind oblivion, fratricide, feud, hunger and death.