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The Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State from 1917 to the Present
Boris Kagarlisky
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Paperback. This panoramic account of political culture in the Soviet Union, by one of the leading voices of unofficial radical socialism, examines the way in which cultural life in the arts, philosophy and historiography has been able to withstand the persistent efforts of the statocracy to extinguish independent thought." Translator(s): Pearce, B. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJF; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 563.
This panoramic account of political culture in the Soviet Union, by one of the leading voices of unofficial radical socialism, examines the way in which cultural life in the arts, philosophy and historiography has been able to withstand the persistent efforts of the "statocracy" to extinguish independent thought.
This panoramic account of political culture in the Soviet Union, by one of the leading voices of unofficial radical socialism, examines the way in which cultural life in the arts, philosophy and historiography has been able to withstand the persistent efforts of the "statocracy" to extinguish independent thought.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Verso Books
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780860919612
SKU
V9780860919612
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About Boris Kagarlisky
Boris Kagarlitsky is the author of The Thinking Reed, The Dialectic of Hope, and The Mirage of Modernisation. He has been arrested twice for his activism, once in 1982 under Brezhnev, and in 1993 under Yeltsin.
Reviews for The Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State from 1917 to the Present
Kagarlitsky's analysis ... is the most acute and substantial so far available ... Among the utterly absorbing acts of witness now reaching us from the Soviet Union, this chronicle, with its proudly Pascalian title, occupies an eminent place.
George Steiner
The Sunday Times
An excellent cram course in Soviet intellectual history for the non-specialist civilian.
The ... Read more
George Steiner
The Sunday Times
An excellent cram course in Soviet intellectual history for the non-specialist civilian.
The ... Read more