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Intellectuals and Reform
Rieber, Alfred J. | January 23, 1989 issue

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The article presents information on the book "The Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State From 1917 to the Present," by Boris Kagarlitsky. To believe the media pundits and many Sovietologists one would think that the current changes taking place in the Soviet Union are largely cosmetic, unprecedented and wholly dependent upon one man. On the occasion of every announcement of a new reform, the doubters stubbornly repeat their dire warnings that this is either deceit or illusion. Many experts are too worried about their reputations as tough minded realists to understand that the changes taking place in the Soviet Union are really structural, linked to a tradition and inscribed in the society.

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THINKING Reed, The (Book); KAGARLITSKY, Boris; SOVIET Union -- Politics & government; INTELLECTUALS; SOCIAL status; SOVIET Union
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