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Recently, scholarship has paid increasing attention to the Soviet
dissident movement that emerged in the mid-20th century; but what,
Petr A. Druzhinin asks, happened to those academics who did not
form part of this circle? Through its intimate portrayal of the
persecution of non-dissident literary scholar Konstantin Azadovsky,
The Soviet Suppression of Academia sheds new light on the
relationship between power and culture in Soviet Russia. Based on
rare access to KGB materials and other sources, this book traces
Azadovsky’s persecution from the 1960s, when he refused to become
a KGB informant, to his arrest on trumped-up drug charges and
imprisonment in a labour camp in the 1980s, to his struggle for
rehabilitation through the early 1990s. Here, for the first time in
English, one of the KGB’s secret operations against a prominent
intellectual is revealed in full, horrific detail. By telling the
fascinating story of an individual's struggle with the powerful
state machine, this book provides much-needed insight into the
experience of life under KGB monitoring and repression and adds
nuance to ongoing debates about the relationship between Soviet
intellectuals and the state.
Recently, scholarship has paid increasing attention to the Soviet
dissident movement that emerged in the mid-20th century; but what,
Petr A. Druzhinin asks, happened to those academics who did not
form part of this circle? Through its intimate portrayal of the
persecution of non-dissident literary scholar Konstantin Azadovsky,
The Soviet Suppression of Academia sheds new light on the
relationship between power and culture in Soviet Russia. Based on
rare access to KGB materials and other sources, this book traces
Azadovsky’s persecution from the 1960s, when he refused to become
a KGB informant, to his arrest on trumped-up drug charges and
imprisonment in a labour camp in the 1980s, to his struggle for
rehabilitation through the early 1990s. Here, for the first time in
English, one of the KGB’s secret operations against a prominent
intellectual is revealed in full, horrific detail. By telling the
fascinating story of an individual's struggle with the powerful
state machine, this book provides much-needed insight into the
experience of life under KGB monitoring and repression and adds
nuance to ongoing debates about the relationship between Soviet
intellectuals and the state.
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