The Russian Intelligentsia

Author : Inna Kochetkova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135181802

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The Myth of the Russian Intelligentsia by Inna Kochetkova Pdf

Russia is one of the few countries in the world where intellectuals existed as a social group and shared a unique social identity. This book focuses on one of the most important and influential groups of Russian intellectuals - the 1960s generation of shestidesyatniki - often considered the last embodiment of the classical tradition of the intelligentsia. They devoted their lives to defending 'socialism with a human face', authored Perestroika, and were subsequently demonised when the reforms failed. It investigates how these intellectuals were affected by the transition to the new post-Soviet Russia, and how they responded to the criticism. Unlike other studies on this subject, which view the Russian intelligentsia as simply an objectively existing group, this book portrays the intelligentsia as a cultural story or myth, revealing that the intelligentsia's existence is a function of the intellectuals' abilities to construct moral arguments. Drawing from extensive original empirical research, including life-story interviews with the Russian intellectuals, it shows how the shestidesyatniki creatively mobilised the myth as they attempted to repair their damaged public image.

Author : Richard Pipes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001550857

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The Russian Intelligentsia by Richard Pipes Pdf

Looks at the condition and prospects of a body of intellectuals known in Russia, pre-Revolutionary and Soviet, as the Intelligentsia. Studies the social function and historic role.

Author : Philip Pomper
Publisher : Harlan Davidson
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Intellectuals
ISBN : UCSC:32106001032769

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The Russian Revolutionary Intelligentsia by Philip Pomper Pdf

Author : Dmitri N. Shalin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000020700

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Russian Intelligentsia in the Age of Counterperestroika by Dmitri N. Shalin Pdf

This book examines the phenomenon of intelligentsia as political discourse, civic action, and embodied practice, focusing especially on the political agendas and personal choices confronting intellectuals in modern Russia. Contributors explore the role of the Russian intelligentsia in dismantling the Soviet system and the unanticipated consequences of the resultant changes which threaten the very existence of the intelligentsia as a distinct group. Building on the legacy of John Dewey and Jürgen Habermas, the authors make the case that the intelligentsia plays a critical role in opening communications, widening the range of participants in public discourse, and freeing social intercourse from the constraints nondemocratic political arrangements impose on the communication sphere. Looking at current trends through a variety of different lenses, this book will be of interest to those studying the past, present, and future of the Russian intelligentsia and its impact not only in Russia, but around the world. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Russian Journal of Communication.

Author : Marc Raeff
Publisher : HarperOne
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035166458

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Origins of the Russian Intelligentsia by Marc Raeff Pdf

Marc Raeff investigates the early development of the Russian intelligentsia, a unique social and political force that was instrumental in westernizing its country and fermenting the revolutionary movement.

Author : Victoria Frede
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299284435

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Doubt, Atheism, and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Intelligentsia by Victoria Frede Pdf

The autocratic rule of both tsar and church in imperial Russia gave rise not only to a revolutionary movement in the nineteenth century but also to a crisis of meaning among members of the intelligentsia. Personal faith became the subject of intense scrutiny as individuals debated the existence of God and the immortality of the soul, debates reflected in the best-known novels of the day. Friendships were formed and broken in exchanges over the status of the eternal. The salvation of the entire country, not just of each individual, seemed to depend on the answers to questions about belief. Victoria Frede looks at how and why atheism took on such importance among several generations of Russian intellectuals from the 1820s to the 1860s, drawing on meticulous and extensive research of both published and archival documents, including letters, poetry, philosophical tracts, police files, fiction, and literary criticism. She argues that young Russians were less concerned about theology and the Bible than they were about the moral, political, and social status of the individual person. They sought to maintain their integrity against the pressures exerted by an autocratic state and rigidly hierarchical society. As individuals sought to shape their own destinies and searched for truths that would give meaning to their lives, they came to question the legitimacy both of the tsar and of Russia’s highest authority, God.

Author : Vladislav Zubok
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674054837

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Zhivago's Children by Vladislav Zubok Pdf

Among the least-chronicled aspects of post–World War II European intellectual and cultural history is the story of the Russian intelligentsia after Stalin. Young Soviet veterans had returned from the heroic struggle to defeat Hitler only to confront the repression of Stalinist society. The world of the intelligentsia exerted an attraction for them, as it did for many recent university graduates. In its moral fervor and its rejection of authoritarianism, this new generation of intellectuals resembled the nineteenth-century Russian intelligentsia that had been crushed by revolutionary terror and Stalinist purges. The last representatives of the Russian intelligentsia, heartened by Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalinism in 1956, took their inspiration from the visionary aims of their nineteenth-century predecessors and from the revolutionary aspirations of 1917. In pursuing the dream of a civil, democratic socialist society, such idealists contributed to the political disintegration of the communist regime. Vladislav Zubok turns a compelling subject into a portrait as intimate as it is provocative. The highly educated elite—those who became artists, poets, writers, historians, scientists, and teachers—played a unique role in galvanizing their country to strive toward a greater freedom. Like their contemporaries in the United States, France, and Germany, members of the Russian intelligentsia had a profound effect during the 1960s, in sounding a call for reform, equality, and human rights that echoed beyond their time and place. Zhivago’s children, the spiritual heirs of Boris Pasternak’s noble doctor, were the last of their kind—an intellectual and artistic community committed to a civic, cultural, and moral mission.

Author : Benjamin Tromly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107656024

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Making the Soviet Intelligentsia by Benjamin Tromly Pdf

Making the Soviet Intelligentsia explores the formation of educated elites in Russian and Ukrainian universities during the early Cold War. In the postwar period, universities emerged as training grounds for the military-industrial complex, showcases of Soviet cultural and economic accomplishments and valued tools in international cultural diplomacy. However, these fêted Soviet institutions also generated conflicts about the place of intellectuals and higher learning under socialism. Disruptive party initiatives in higher education - from the xenophobia and anti-Semitic campaigns of late Stalinism to the rewriting of history and the opening of the USSR to the outside world under Khrushchev - encouraged students and professors to interpret their commitments as intellectuals in the Soviet system in varied and sometimes contradictory ways. In the process, the social construct of intelligentsia took on divisive social, political and national meanings for educated society in the postwar Soviet state.

Author : Christopher Read
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350035836

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The Russian Intelligentsia by Christopher Read Pdf

The Russian Intelligentsia is the first single-volume history of a small but tremendously influential group of Russian intellectuals who achieved world renown in a variety of spheres. While previous accounts have addressed the history of individuals within this collective, Christopher Read offers the first explanation of the intelligentsia as a group. Read traces the vast debates that broke out between, and within, a multitude of intellectual factions, and contextualizes the ideas of the group within the framework of cultural, social, political, and economic development from the late 18th century to the present day. This comprehensive yet accessible account demonstrates how the Russian intelligentsia morphed from one incarnation to the next, and effectively situates this change and continuity within a pan-European context. It considers the role of the intelligentsia throughout its origins, its transformation during the Russian Revolution, and since the collapse of communism, and highlights the beliefs of key figures such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Pavlov, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Mikhail Gorbachev. In doing so, Read provides an essential guide to a fascinating aspect of Russia's social and cultural history.

Author : Jane Burbank
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195364477

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Intelligentsia and Revolution by Jane Burbank Pdf

Over the five years following the Russian revolution of 1917 there occurred a brilliant outburst of theory and criticism among Russian intellectuals struggling to comprehend their country's vast social upheaval. Much of their intense speculation focused on issues that are still hotly debated: Was this socialism? Why had the revolution happened in Russia? What did Bolshevik power mean for Russia and the Western world? This compelling study recovers these early responses to 1917 and analyzes the specific ideological context out of which they emerged. Jane Burbank explores the ideas and experiences of diverse prominent intellectuals, ranging from the monarchists on the right to the Mensheviks, Socialist revolutionaries, and Anarchists on the left. Following these thinkers through the turbulent years of civil war and rebuilding of state power, Burbank shows how revolution both revitalized their political culture and exposed the fragile basis of its existence.

Author : Masha Gessen
Publisher : Verso
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1859841473

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Dead Again by Masha Gessen Pdf

The author examines "the ways in which intellectuals are finding an identity in the new Russia."--Cover.

Author : Boris Shragin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000949735

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Landmarks by Boris Shragin Pdf

Written from a particular point of view, this text still stands as one of the key studies on the thought-world of the Russian intelligentsia. It will be of interest to students of Russian social and political thought as to those of intellectual history as well.

Author : Barukh Ḥazan
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 141282995X

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Olympic Sports and Propaganda Games by Barukh Ḥazan Pdf

Olympische-Spiele, Moskau, Politik, Boykott, UdSSR.

Author : Christopher Read
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1979-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349038947

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Religion, Revolution and the Russian Intelligentsia 1900–1912 by Christopher Read Pdf

Author : Svetlana Klimova
Publisher : Value Inquiry Book
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004440607

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Russian Intelligentsia in Search of an Identity by Svetlana Klimova Pdf

Russian Intelligentsia in Search of an Identity considers the problem of the Russian intelligentsia's self-identification in its historic-philosophical and historic-cultural aspects. The monograph traces the rise of the intelligentsia, from the 18th century to the present day, problematizing its central ideas and themes. In this historical context, it proceeds to investigate the distinctive intellectual, spiritual and biographical opposition of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy in relation to the character and fate of the Russian intelligentsia, with its patterns of thought, ideology, fundamental values and behavioral models. Special attention is given to the binary patterns of the intelligentsia's consciousness, as opposed to dialogical and holistic modes of apprehension.