Christopher Read is Professorial Fellow in Modern European History at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of several books, including War and Revolution in Russia, 1914-22 (2013), Lenin: A Revolutionary Life (2005) and The Making and Breaking of the Soviet System (2001). He is also the editor of The Stalin Years: A Reader (2002).

• List of ImagesIntroductionPart I: Origins of the Intelligentsia (to 1860)1. The Origins of the Intelligentsia: Priests, Monks and Moralists2. The Age of Belinsky: Superfluous People and Liberal AristocratsPart II: Politicisation (1860-1890)3. Nihilism: Fathers, Sons and Raznochintsy4. Populism and Feminism: the First StudentsPart III: The High Point of the Intelligentsia (1890 – 1917)5. Marxism: Professional Revolutionaries6. Science: Scholars and Academicians7. Embourgeoisement?: Liberal ProfessionalsPart IV: Science, Sovietisation, Consciousness and Productionism (1917 – 1953)8. The Revolutionary Era: Transforming the Intelligentsia9. The Intelligentsia and Stalin: Engineers of the Soul and Constructors of UtopiaPart V: Has the Intelligentsia survived the Collapse of Communism? (1953 to the Present)10. After Stalin: Dissidents and Reformers11.The Intelligentsia since the Collapse of Communism: Public IntellectualsBibliographyIndex

This work by Read (Univ. of Warwick) is an excellent treatment of the Russian intelligentsia, primarily from about 1855 to 1999. He provides just enough social and political background for readers to better understand developments within the intelligentsia ... Recommended [for] advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals.