Children of Zhivago: The Last Russian Intelligentsia
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Children of Zhivago: The Last Russian Intelligentsia
29.99 €
"Children of Zhivago" is a collective history of the people who shaped the culture, worldview, and public opinion in Russia after Stalin's death. These include not only the famous "Sixties" generation, such as Alexander Tvardovsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Vladimir Vysotsky, but also their elder mentors—from Ilya Ehrenburg to Dmitry Likhachev; dissidents Andrei Sakharov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn; physicists and sociologists; journalists and filmmakers; theater directors and actors; government and party officials—all who saw themselves as the heirs of the Russian intelligentsia.
This book is about a powerful cultural environment that vanished with the Soviet Union, but continues to nourish and inspire many of us.
The unifying image of the book is the fate of Yuri Zhivago from Boris Pasternak's novel, a brilliant, extended epitaph on the demise of the pre-revolutionary Russian intelligentsia.
The book's author, Vladislav Zubok, is a graduate of Moscow State University, Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the author of the acclaimed books "Collapse: The Death of the Soviet Union" and "Failed Empire." His latest work, "The World of Cold War," was a finalist for the George Orwell Prize in 2025.
This book is about a powerful cultural environment that vanished with the Soviet Union, but continues to nourish and inspire many of us.
The unifying image of the book is the fate of Yuri Zhivago from Boris Pasternak's novel, a brilliant, extended epitaph on the demise of the pre-revolutionary Russian intelligentsia.
The book's author, Vladislav Zubok, is a graduate of Moscow State University, Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the author of the acclaimed books "Collapse: The Death of the Soviet Union" and "Failed Empire." His latest work, "The World of Cold War," was a finalist for the George Orwell Prize in 2025.
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- All books in the series 20th Century: People and Fates