Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia

by Vladislav M. Zubok

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674062329
• ISBN13: 9780674062320
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"