The Russian intelligentsia
1961, First Edition. New York : Columbia University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #447417
Physical description; 234 pages. Contents; Foreword / Richard Pipes. -- What is the intelligentsia? / Martin Malia. -- The pre-Revolutionary intelligentsia and the legal order / Leonard Schapiro. -- The Russian intelligentsia on the eve of the revolution / Boris Elkin. -- The historical evolution of the Russian intelligentsia / Richard Pipes. -- The structure of the Soviet intelligentsia / Leopold Labedz. -- Observations on the Soviet University students / David Burg. -- The solitary hero and the philistines: a note on the heritage of the Stalin era / Leopold H. Haimson. -- The thaw and the writers / Max Hayward. -- Soviet scientists and the great break / David Joravsky. -- Ideology and science in the Soviet Union: recent developments / Gustav Wetter. -- The intelligentsia in Communist China: a tentative comparison / Benjamin Schwartz. -- The situation of the intelligentsia in Spain today / Julián Marías. -- Documents. Philosophy and the natural sciences in the USSR: a report of a conference on the philosophical problems of science, Moscow, 1958 ; "Dr. Zhivago": letter to Boris Pasternak from the Editors of Novyi Mir. -- Selective glossary. Subjects; Intellectuals. HISTORY Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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