him the chair of political economy and statistics in the law faculty of Moscow University.3 Soon after his marriage (1898), Bulgakov published an investigation into the relation of capitalism to the agrarian economy. This was a subject of great importance in Russia where the overwhelming majority of the population were peasants. In the years between 1900 and 1903 Bulgakov became increasingly dissatisfied with what he saw as the ethical relativism of Marxism. He therefore tried to marry Marxist social