Perception of World War II by the Russian intelligentsia and the western intellectuals (to the statement of a problem) Cover Image

Восприятие Второй миро- вой войны российской интеллигенцией и западными интеллектуалами (К постановке проблемы)
Perception of World War II by the Russian intelligentsia and the western intellectuals (to the statement of a problem)

Author(s): Elena A. Arshavskaya, Nikolay Georgievich Yurkin
Subject(s): Social Philosophy, Social history, Contemporary Philosophy, Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Ивановский государственный университет
Keywords: Great Patriotic War; World War II; Russian intelligentsia; White Russians; Soviet intelligentsia; western intellectuals;

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem that is always urgent for the domestic historiography — to features of perception of World War II by domestic intelligentsia members and foreign intellectuals. The authors show that whereas for most Europeans that war was just another sad episode in the development of their respective states, the Russian intelligentsia members perceived it as something fatal raising questions of Russia’s existence.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 36-55
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Russian