By Inna Kochetkova
ISBN-10: 0415441137
ISBN-13: 9780415441131
Russia is without doubt one of the few nations on the earth the place intellectuals existed as a social workforce and shared a special social id. This publication specializes in the most vital and influential teams of Russian intellectuals - the Sixties iteration of shestidesyatniki - frequently thought of the final embodiment of the classical culture of the intelligentsia. They committed their lives to protecting 'socialism with a human face', authored Perestroika, and have been for that reason demonised while the reforms failed. It investigates how those intellectuals have been suffering from the transition to the hot post-Soviet Russia, and the way they replied to the feedback.
Unlike different experiences in this topic, which view the Russian intelligentsia as easily an objectively present workforce, this e-book portrays the intelligentsia as a cultural tale or delusion, revealing that the intelligentsia's lifestyles is a functionality of the intellectuals' skills to build ethical arguments. Drawing from huge unique empirical learn, together with life-story interviews with the Russian intellectuals, it indicates how the shestidesyatniki creatively mobilised the parable as they tried to fix their broken public image.
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As a result, the meaning of the intelligentsia is debated. It is crucial to bear in mind that the strong emphasis on the exclusiveness and legitimacy of its special mission makes the intelligentsia mantle particularly attractive and the category is used by various social groups in their claims to power and influence. The symbolic value of the intelligentsia identity In the previous section we mainly talked about intelligentsia as a class or real group, occasionally referring to it as an idea and a specific identity.
For the succeeding intelligentsia groups social origins and status were less important. The group to which the term intelligentsia was applied in Russia included also déclassé professionals as well as the small town provincial elite (Pipes, 1961). In the absence of formal legal definitions, the way of life and cultural outlook of a person determined his or her affiliation with a specific social class or group. For intelligentsia, a secular, liberal outlook and modelling one’s life after European Downloaded by [INFLIBNET Centre] at 05:28 29 August 2012 What is Russian intelligentsia?
For the intelligentsia the norm of social responsibility involves speaking on behalf of the vulnerable and disadvantaged, on behalf of the people. This responsibility to abandon personal interests arises from the feeling of guilt they have for the people. I will explain the origins of this feeling later in the chapter. Both groups value knowledge and truth. Mills argued that the politics of the intellectuals are first of all ‘the politics of truth’ (1944, 1963, 2008) and one of their master tasks is ‘to stop being intellectual dupes of political patrioteers’ (2008: 2).
The Myth of the Russian Intelligentsia: Old Intellectuals in the New Russia by Inna Kochetkova
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