Russian Intelligentsia in the Age of Counterperestroika: Political Agendas, Rhetorical Strategies, Personal Choices

ISBN-13: 9780367261696 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 200 str.

Dmitri N. Shalin

Opis

This book examines intelligentsia as political discourse, civic action, and embodied practice, focusing especially on the political agendas and personal choices confronting intellectuals in modern Russia. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Russian Journal of Communication.

Spis treści

Communication, democracy, and intelligentsia: an introduction Dmitri N. Shalin 1. ‘Intelligentsia’: the vanished concept and its aftermath Lev D. Gudkov 2. Intelligentsia, intellectuals, and the social functions of intelligence Mikhail Epstein 3. Subjective notes on the objective situation among Russian intellectuals Leonid Gozman 4. The post-intelligentsia and the Russian catastrophe of the twenty-first century Andrei Piontkovsky 5. Russian intelligentsia in the age of counterperestroika Dmitri N. Shalin 6. Intelligentsia exhumed: nationalist trends among contemporary Russian intelligentsia Gasan Gusejnov 7. Intelligentsia and cynicism: political metamorphoses of postmodernism Mark Lipovetsky 8. Literature and power in the new age: institutions and divisions Natalia Ivanova 9. Reading as a heroic feat: the intelligentsia and uncensored literature Lyudmila Ulitskaya 10. The intelligentsia and emigration: strategic prospects, unrealized possibilities, and personal risks Serge Iourienen 11. The illusion of freedom: propaganda and the informational swamp Alexander Genis 12. Intelligentsia and the Gospel according to Mathew Viktor Shenderovich

O autorze

Dmitri N. Shalin is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Democratic Culture, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. He is the coordinator of the Justice & Democracy Forum series; editor of The Social Health of Nevada report; and co-director of the International Biography Initiative, the Erving Goffman Archives, and the Russian Culture and Intelligentsia projects. His research interests and publications are in the areas of pragmatism, sociological theory, democratic culture, and Russian society.