Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia The Last Russian Intelligentsia

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. alexander F. Remington - Washington Post Book World in His Moving zhivago's Children , Historian Vladislav Zubok Chronicles The Rise And Fall Of This Generation Of Russian Intellectuals, A Group He Calls The Spiritual Heirs Of Boris Pasternak's Noble Doctor....the Players In Zubok's Fascinating Study Come From All Corners Of The Soviet Intelligentsia, From Leftist Socialist True Believers To Right-wing Patriots. The Result Is A Thorough, Scholarly Examination Of A Vital Era In Russian History Whose Themes Of Human Rights, Freedom And Dissent Will Resonate Among Experts And Lay Readers Alike.

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.

Among the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and cultural history is the story of the Russian intelligentsia after Stalin. Vladislav Zubok turns a compelling subject into a portrait as intimate as it is provocative. 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. Prologue: The fate of Zhivago's intelligentsia The "children" grow up, 1945-1955 Shock effects, 1956-1958 Rediscovery of the world, 1955-1961 Optimists on the move, 1957-1961 The intelligentsia reborn, 1959-1962 The vanguard disowned, 1962-1964 Searching for roots, 1961-1967 Between reform and dissent, 1965-1968 The long decline, 1968-1985 Epilogue: The end of the intelligentsia. This is an in-depth history of the cultural and intellectual evolution of the intelligentsia in Russia from Stalin's death in 1953 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991