The story of the Russian intelligentsia after Stalin is poorly chronicled. Zubok turns a compelling subject into a portrait as intimate as it is provocative. Zhivagoâ??s children, the spiritual heirs of Pasternakâ??s noble doctor, were the last of their kindâ?"an intellectual and artistic community committed to a civic, cultural, and moral mission.
Among the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and cultural history is the story of the Russian intelligentsia after Stalin. Young Soviet veterans had returned from the heroic struggle to defeat Hitler only to confront the repression of Stalinist society.
