The Soviet Suppression of Academia
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-13613-7 (ISBN)
Based on rare access to KGB materials and other sources, this book traces Azadovsky’s persecution from the 1960s, when he refused to become a KGB informant, to his arrest on trumped-up drug charges and imprisonment in a labour camp in the 1980s, to his struggle for rehabilitation through the early 1990s. Here, for the first time in English, one of the KGB’s secret operations against a prominent intellectual is revealed in full, horrific detail. By telling the fascinating story of an individual's struggle with the powerful state machine, this book provides much-needed insight into the experience of life under KGB monitoring and repression and adds nuance to ongoing debates about the relationship between Soviet intellectuals and the state.
Petr A. Druzhinin is a Russian-Israeli historian and a fellow at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and the at the Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia. He is the author of Frederik the Great's Books (2004) and Heraldry and Rare Books (2014). Sarah Vitali is Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her published translations include Vladislav Khodasevich’s Necropolis (Columbia University Press, 2019). She is also the translation editor of the New York-based arts and literary magazine American Chordata.
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Intellectual Life in Leningrad in the Late Soviet Period
2. Suppressing Nonconformism in the USSR's 'Second Capital'
3. The Dynamics of the Power-Culture Relationship
4. Constructing an 'Internal Enemy'
5. Nonconformism on Trial
6. Prison Life in the Late Soviet Union
7. The Discursive Deconstruction of the Soviet Regime and its Limits during Perestroika
8. Continuity and Change: Struggling for Rehabilitation in Post-Soviet Russa
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 22.07.2022 |
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Übersetzer | Sarah Vitali |
Zusatzinfo | 15 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-13613-1 / 1350136131 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-13613-7 / 9781350136137 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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