Soviet Suppression of Academia

Petr A. Druzhinin is a Russian-Israeli historian and a fellow at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and the at the Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia. He is the author of Frederik the Great's Books (2004) and Heraldry and Rare Books (2014).Sarah Vitali is Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her published translations include Vladislav Khodasevich’s Necropolis (Columbia University Press, 2019). She is also the translation editor of the New York-based arts and literary magazine American Chordata.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Intellectual Life in Leningrad in the Late Soviet Period2. Suppressing Nonconformism in the USSR's 'Second Capital'3. The Dynamics of the Power-Culture Relationship4. Constructing an 'Internal Enemy'5. Nonconformism on Trial6. Prison Life in the Late Soviet Union7. The Discursive Deconstruction of the Soviet Regime and its Limits during Perestroika8. Continuity and Change: Struggling for Rehabilitation in Post-Soviet RussaConclusionBibliographyIndex

As too many in modern Russia are also discovering, repression has a momentum of its own. Petr Druzhinin's meticulous exploration of the case of the Azadovskys follows this dark path through forty years of Russian history through to the post-Soviet 1990s.