The Russian Intelligentsia / / Richard Pipes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Pipes, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1961]; ©1961
• Year of Publication: 1961
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Looks at the condition and prospects of a body of intellectuals known in Russia, pre-Revolutionary and Soviet, as the Intelligentsia. Studies the social function and historic role.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword / Pipes, Richard -- Contents -- What Is the Intelligentsia? / Malia, Martin -- The Pre-Revolutionary Intelligentsia and the Legal Order / Schapiro, Leonard -- The Russian Intelligentsia on the Eve of the Revolution / Elkin, Boris -- The Historical Evolution of the Russian Intelligentsia / Pipes, Richard -- The Structure of the Soviet Intelligentsia / Labedz, Leopold -- Observations on Soviet University Students / Burg, David -- The Solitary Hero and the Philistines A Note on the Heritage of the Stalin Era / Haimson, Leopold H. -- The Thaw and the Writers / Hayward, Max -- Soviet Scientists and the Great Break / Joravsky, David -- Ideology and Science in the Soviet Union Recent Developments / Wetter, Gustav -- The Intelligentsia in Communist China A Tentative Comparison / Schwartz, Benjamin -- The Situation of the Intelligentsia in Spain Today / Marías, Julián -- Documents I. Philosophy and the Natural Sciences in the USSR -- Documents II. "Doctor Zhivago": Letter to Boris Pasternak from the Editors of Novyi Mir -- Selective Glossary -- Notes on Authors -- Index