Word: intelligentsiae
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Lenin's heirs in Russia do not face this kind of opposition as yet. Nonetheless they are also caught by the contradictory force of middle-class consumer appetites for a better, wider life and by the insistent demands of the creative and scientific intelligentsia for greater freedoms. It is more than likely that both the Western and Communist nations have entered a new historical period. If Soviet leaders choose to react to it by being flexible and granting greater freedoms, they will be able to find chapter and verse in Lenin to justify their course. If they react...
...involved in politics. "In the Jewish culture," says Harvard Sociologist Nathan Glazer, "you get out of poverty by going to college and becoming a lawyer or an intellectual. In the Irish culture, you get out by going into politics. Pat did both. He links the Jewish intelligentsia and the world of politics." On the intellectual side, he collaborated with Glazer in writing Beyond the Melting Pot (1963), a groundbreaking study that pointed out how strongly America's various ethnic groups have resisted assimilation. In politics, he worked on Harriman's 1954 campaign for Governor of New York...
...Oxford's Max Hayward, one of the leading Western specialists on Soviet literature: Tvardovsky's departure marks the "decapitation" of Novy Mir and "an incalculable loss to Russia and the world." The magazine, he adds, "provided the focus for the post-Stalin revival of a critically thinking intelligentsia in Russia." The immediate effect of Novy Mir's disappearance as an outlet for independent writers will probably be an increase in the amount of good writing circulating from hand to hand by samizdat, the underground press...
...courteously invited by the KGB to write a general account of the mood of the intelligentsia, and I equally courteously refused, upon which the matter ended. In 1963, I was taken by night to the Lubyanka prison and ordered to write a report against an American diplomat to the effect that he had subjected me, and other Soviet citizens, to malicious ideological brainwashing. I again refused, although they then threatened me with criminal proceedings. In 1965, I refused outright to talk with them, which cost me exile in Siberia. That is why I think I have the personal right...
...seems to me that no oppression can be effective without those who are willing to submit to it. It sometimes appears to me that the Soviet 'creative intelligentsia'-that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another, and doing a third-is, as a whole, an even more unpleasant phenomenon than the regime that formed...