Title Zhivago's children : the last Russian intelligentsia / Vladislav Zubok

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (453 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 Summary 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-436) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960. Doktor Zhivago. Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960 -- Influence Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Influence SUBJECT Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960 fast Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 fast Doktor Zhivago (Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich) fast Subject Intellectuals -- Soviet Union -- History Social change -- Soviet Union -- History Socialism -- Soviet Union SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes. HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Intellectual life Intellectuals Social change Socialism Intellektueller Intellektuelle -- Sowjetunion -- Geschichte 1945-1991. Kultur -- Sowjetunion -- Geschichte 1945-1991. Intellektueller. Geistesleben. Kulturleben. Kulturpolitik. Reformbewegung. Dissident. SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125824 Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125817 Soviet Union -- History -- 1985-1991. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91005836 Subject Soviet Union Sowjetunion Sowjetunuion. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674054837 0674054830

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