NDLI: From dissidents to collaborators: the resurgence and demise of the Russian critical intelligentsia since 1985

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Author	Peuva, Marina
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	This paper investigates the multifaceted universe of Russian intelligentsia and addresses the following, troubling, questions: What caused pro-democratic political dissent to weaken among the intelligentsia in the aftermath of perestrojka? Why has the young generation of Russian public intellectuals undergone a radical metamorphosis of their value system and plunged into political passivity and conformism? Freedom has historically been a prima facie value for the Russian liberal intelligentsia. By the mid-1990s, however, much of the intelligentsia came to be associated not with advocacy of individual liberty and human rights but with the failure of liberal democracy in Russia. This paper focuses on how the generation of the 1960s liberal intelligentsia, or shestidesjatniki, who played an active role during perestrojka, gave way to a generation of the “sons,” who, characterized as Western-style intellectuals, became spin doctors and political technologists, replacing the original ideals and high moral stance of their predecessors with nihilistic nonchalance. It is argued that the demise of dissent in post-Soviet Russia derives from the younger generation of intellectuals’ view of the attainment of political power by the generation of shestidesjatniki during perestrojka and the first El’tsin term as the latter’s moral fall and abandonment of the intelligentsia’s traditional role as an outside critic of the state.
Starting Page	231
Ending Page	250
Page Count	20
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09259392
Journal	Studies in East European Thought
Volume Number	60
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15730948
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-05-10
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Intelligentsia Intellectuals Dissent Dissidents Democracy Russia Perestrojka Political Science Philosophy History Political Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Law Cultural Studies Literature and Literary Theory

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