Nikolai Berdyaev was the foremost religious and political thinker of his time. In this book he attempts to consolidate the industrial world and the place for religion and the modern man inside that world.

Scholar, mystic, Christian, Nicolas Berdyaev has profoundly influenced the religious thinking of our age. "He is one of the few who have found the Christian answer," writes Evgeny Lampert, "and yet do not cease to question with those whose lives are still torn asunder by disbelief, doubt and sufferings; one of the few who dare to be, as thinkers, Christians and, as Christians, thinkers."