恰达也夫的《哲学书信》引起了一场争论。该信断言,俄国与其他国家不同,它没有任何深厚而又牢固的历史传统,它的历史也缺乏任何共同的思想和发展规律。俄国社会还是第一次见到有人对祖国的历史持这种观点,尽管这种观点流露出深深的痛苦和无法掩饰的悲观情绪。社会对上述观点不能不作出反应。在1830—1850年间,历史传统问题在俄国的思想争论中占有重要地位。 Chadafiev’s Philosophical Letters sparked a debate. The letter asserts that unlike other countries, Russia does not have any profound and strong historical tradition, nor does it have any common ideology and law of development in its history. For the first time in Russian society, there are people who hold this view of the history of the motherland, though this view reveals profound anguish and unbelievable pessimism. Society can not but respond to these views. Between 1830 and 1850, the issue of history and tradition played an important role in Russia’s ideological debate.