Among the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and cultural history is the story of the Russian intelligentsia after Stalin. Young Soviet veterans had returned from the heroic struggle to defeat Hitler only to confront the repression of Stalinist society. The world of the intelligentsia exerted an attraction for them, as it did for many recent university graduates. In its moral fervor and its rejection of authoritarianism, this new generation of intellectuals resembled the nineteenth-century Russian intelligentsia that had been crushed by revolutionary terror...
Among the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and cultural history is the story of the Russian intelligentsia after...
Dmitry Likhachev (1906-1999), born in St. Petersburg, was one of the most prominent Russian intellectuals of the twentieth century. His life spanned virtually the entire century -from Tsarist rule under Nicholas II via the Russian Revolution and Civil War into seven decades of communism, followed by Gorbachev's Perestroika and the rise of a new Russia. In 1928, shortly after completing his university education, Likhachev was arrested, charged with counter-revolutionary ideas and imprisoned in the Gulag, where he spent the next four years. On his release, he was able to return to his home city...
Dmitry Likhachev (1906-1999), born in St. Petersburg, was one of the most prominent Russian intellectuals of the twentieth century. His life spanned v...
