Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia
submitted by Marvin's Underground Evening Lectures
on 10/14/18
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The last Russian intelligentsia—the to some extent imagined community of Moscow intellectuals born between the 1920s and the early 1940s and coalesced during Khrushchev's post-Stalin thaw—was shaped both by contemporaneous forces—Bolshevism, the Great Patriotic War, and the demographic prevalence of young people in the war's aftermath—as well as by the traditions of its 19th Century intellectual forbearers, Vladislav Zubok suggested. (ref: HAPP 20091009)
