[9] November 19 — THE SOVIETIZATION OF INTELLECTUAL LIFE
Section outline
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Assigned reading:
Peter Kapitza, letters to Mezhlauk, Molotov, and Stalin, from Kapitza in Cambridge and Moscow, eds. J. Boag, P. Rubinin, D. Shoenberg (1990), 329–346. Alexei Kojevnikov, "Rituals of Stalinist culture at work: Science and the games of intraparty democracy circa 1948," Russian Review 57 (1998): 25–52.
Benjamin Tromly, "Uncertain terrain: The intelligentsia and the Thaw," Making the Soviet Intelligentsia (2014), 187-216.
Further resources:
Heorhii Kasianov, Українська інтелігенція 1920-30-х років: соціальний портрет та історична доля (1992).
Konstantin Ivanov, "Science after Stalin: Forging a new image of Soviet science," Science in Context 15 (2002): 317-388.
Vladislav Zubok, Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia (2009). [prologue and epilogue]
Maria A. Rogacheva, The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev (2017).
Alexey Golubev, “Techno-Utopian Visions of Soviet Intellectuals after Stalin,” in The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia (2020).
Image: May Day heroes (Krokodil, 1945)