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5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent way to understand the essence of Russia,
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This review is from: Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia (Belknap Press) (Hardcover)
This is a remarkable book, though probably not the last word on the subject, it is likely to break new ground in Russian cultural history. When I was in Russia in 1992, I was wondering what sort of history could ever be written of Russia inthe 20th century since most of the sources were either uncritical praise of the regime or the elite discussions of dissidents. There was no way to determine what the real truth was. This book deals with the thoughts and aspirations of the intellectuals during the period after WWII, and how things developed after deStalinization, the 1960s, the period of stagnation under Brezhnev and finally the end of the Soviet Union. Zubok shows us a panorama of leading lights who defined the times in which they lived. What is fascinating is just how much influence the generation of the 1960s still seems to exercise on society. which could be seen not only as the contest between slavophiles and westernizers, but between Memorial and Pamyat (Remember).
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Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia (Belknap Press) by V. M. Zubok (Hardcover - May 30, 2009)
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