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Soviet Intellectuals and Political Power - The Post-Stalin Era (Hardcover)
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Soviet Intellectuals and Political Power - The Post-Stalin Era (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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In this unprecedented work on the status and role of intellectuals
in Soviet political life, a former Soviet sociologist maps out the
delicate, often paradoxical, ties between the political regime and
the creative thinkers who play a major part in the movement toward
modernization. Beginning with Stalin, Vladimir Shlapentokh explores
the mutual need and antagonism that have existed between political
leaders and intellectuals. What emerges is a fascinating portrayal
of the Soviet intellectual network since the 1950s, which touches
on such topics as the role of literature and film in political
opposition, levels of opposition (open, legal, and private), and
the spread of paranoia as fueled by the KGB. Throughout he shows
how the intellectual communityusually a cohesive, liberal grouphas
fared under Khrushchev's cautious tolerance, Brezhnev's
repressions, and now Gorbachev's Glasnost. Shlapentokh maintains,
however, that under Glasnost freer speech has revealed a more
pronounced divergence between liberal and conservative thinkers,
and has allowed for open conservative opposition to the reformatory
measures of Gorbachev and the liberals. He argues that one of the
strongest checks on reform is the growing presence of
Russophilism--a movement supporting Russian nationalism and
Stalin's concept of socialism--among the political elite and the
masses. Although the role of the liberal intellectuals in the late
1980s was less prominent than it was in the 1960s, Shlapentokh
asserts that they remain the major agent of modernization in the
Soviet Union, as well as in other socialist countries. Originally
published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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