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What Was Shestidesiatnichestvo for Soviet Philosophers?
What Was Shestidesiatnichestvo for Soviet Philosophers?

Author(s): Fujii Youichi
Subject(s): Language studies
Published by: Slavic Research Center
Keywords: Soviet Philosophers

Summary/Abstract: In March 2006, a meeting of the so-called Shestidesiatniki [people of the 1960s] was organized by the Liberal Mission Foundation, at the Taganka The¬ater in Moscow in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Nikita Khrush¬chev’s secret speech at the Twentieth Party Congress. In the auditorium, more than 200 outstanding Russian men and women of various ages gathered and tried to elucidate what for each of them had changed after Joseph Stalin’s death and debunking of the cult of personality.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 79-92
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English