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

By Boris Kagarlitsky

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860919617
• ISBN13: 9780860919612
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"