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The Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State from 1917 to the Present

The Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State from 1917 to the Present

by Boris Kagarlitsky (Author), Boris Kagarlitsky (Author)

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    Paperback 1989

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Edition: 2
 Publisher: Verso
Published: 17 Jul 1989
ISBN 10: 0860919617
ISBN 13: 9780860919612

Media Reviews
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 Voice Literary Supplement

This extraordinarily impressive book, full of surprising insights, shows the intensity of unofficial life behind officaldom. --Anthony Barnett, Observer

The book succeeds on the strength of the author's conclusive demonstration of the vitality and variety of left democratic thought in the Soviet Union and by his elaborate mastery of the sources. The best of its kind. --Library Journal

Ambitious, earnest, impassioned. --Washington Post

Author Bio
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.