Russian Intelligentsia in the Age of Counterperestroika

Dmitri N. Shalin is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Democratic Culture, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. He is the coordinator of the Justice & Democracy Forum series; editor of The Social Health of Nevada report; and co-director of the International Biography Initiative, the Erving Goffman Archives, and the Russian Culture and Intelligentsia projects. His research interests and publications are in the areas of pragmatism, sociological theory, democratic culture, and Russian society.

Communication, democracy, and intelligentsia: an introduction 1. ‘Intelligentsia’: the vanished concept and its aftermath 2. Intelligentsia, intellectuals, and the social functions of intelligence 3. Subjective notes on the objective situation among Russian intellectuals 4. The post-intelligentsia and the Russian catastrophe of the twenty-first century 5. Russian intelligentsia in the age of counterperestroika 6. Intelligentsia exhumed: nationalist trends among contemporary Russian intelligentsia 7. Intelligentsia and cynicism: political metamorphoses of postmodernism 8. Literature and power in the new age: institutions and divisions 9. Reading as a heroic feat: the intelligentsia and uncensored literature 10. The intelligentsia and emigration: strategic prospects, unrealized possibilities, and personal risks 11. The illusion of freedom: propaganda and the informational swamp 12. Intelligentsia and the Gospel according to Mathew