The Russian Intelligentsia
Published on 30. May 1997
Book
Hardback
112 pages
978-0-231-10726-6 (ISBN)
Description
-- Times Literary Supplement
Reviews / Votes
An unflinching, passionate account of what has gone wrong in Russia since the collapse of the Bolshevik system-and of the complicity of the most privileged segment of the intelligentsia in the Yeltsin-era crimes and catastrophes--by a voice of incomparable moral authority, intelligence, and persuasiveness. Susan SontagMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Trade binding
Weight
312 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-10726-6 (9780231107266)
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Person
Andrei Sinyavsky is the author of The Makepeace Experiment; Goodnight; Soviet Civilizaton: A Cultural History; and Strolling with Pushkin. In exile from the U.S.S.R. since the 1970's, he was professor of Slavic studies at the Sorbonne until his retirement in 1974.
Content
Introduction Strolls with Pushkin A Journey to the River Black Remembering Cathy Nepomnyaschchy and Slava Yastremski Notes Notes on the Text