Russian Intelligentsia in the Age of Counterperestroika (eBook, ePUB)

Political Agendas, Rhetorical Strategies, Personal Choices
Redaktion: Shalin, Dmitri N.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000020700
• Artikelnr.: 59571477

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Communication, democracy, and intelligentsia: an introduction 1.
'Intelligentsia': the vanished concept and its aftermath 2. Intelligentsia,
intellectuals, and the social functions of intelligence 3. Subjective notes
on the objective situation among Russian intellectuals 4. The
post-intelligentsia and the Russian catastrophe of the twenty-first century
5. Russian intelligentsia in the age of counterperestroika 6.
Intelligentsia exhumed: nationalist trends among contemporary Russian
intelligentsia 7. Intelligentsia and cynicism: political metamorphoses of
postmodernism 8. Literature and power in the new age: institutions and
divisions 9. Reading as a heroic feat: the intelligentsia and uncensored
literature 10. The intelligentsia and emigration: strategic prospects,
unrealized possibilities, and personal risks 11. The illusion of freedom:
propaganda and the informational swamp 12. Intelligentsia and the Gospel
according to Mathew