Dead Again: The Russian Intelligentsia After Communism

by Masha Gessen

Book Overview

Isaiah Berlin once argued that the concept of the intelligentsia was "Russia's greatest contribution to world civilization." Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Russian intelligentsia has shared a profound sense of responsibility for the fate of its country and a belief in the transformative power of the Word--a belief reinforced by the state, which has relentlessly tried to suppress any form of intellectual dissent. Starting in 1986, this belief...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859841473
• ISBN13: 9781859841471
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"