Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Contents IX
4. What Is the Intelligentsia? 1
5. The Pre-Revolutionary Intelligentsia and the Legal Order 19
6. The Russian Intelligentsia on the Eve of the Revolution 32
7. The Historical Evolution of the Russian Intelligentsia 47
8. The Structure of the Soviet Intelligentsia 63
9. Observations on Soviet University Students 80
10. The Solitary Hero and the Philistines A Note on the Heritage of the Stalin Era 101
11. The Thaw and the Writers 111
12. Soviet Scientists and the Great Break 122
13. Ideology and Science in the Soviet Union Recent Developments 141
14. The Intelligentsia in Communist China A Tentative Comparison 164
15. The Situation of the Intelligentsia in Spain Today 182
16. Documents I. Philosophy and the Natural Sciences in the USSR 192
17. Documents II. “Doctor Zhivago”: Letter to Boris Pasternak from the Editors of Novyi Mir 208
18. Selective Glossary 227
19. Notes on Authors 229
20. Index 231