Интеллектуально-творческий потенциал дореволюционной интеллигенции Петрограда — Ленинграда и его реализация в условиях нэпа
Intellectual and Creative Potential of the Prerevolutionary Intelligentsia of Petrograd — Leningrad and its Realization in the Conditions of the New Economic Policy

Summary/Abstract: The article explores the place and role of the pre-revolutionary intelligentsia in development of the Soviet society in the days of the New Economic Policy. Materials of private papers of experts of a pre-revolutionary formation allow to define motives of their political self-determination. On the basis of various historical sources the directions and forms of active participation of the pre-revolutionary intelligentsia in country life during an initial stage of the New Economic Policy are revealed. Preparation and transition of Soviet leadership for the forced socialist construction meant refusal of the New Economic Policy. In new conditions, as shown in the research, the pre-revolutionary intelligentsia began to be exposed to discrimination and repressions. It has lost a former opportunity to widely use the intellectual and creative potential. In the difficult atmosphere of persecutions and prosecutions for social and political beliefs intelligentsia have been forced to adapt. Examples of conformist behavior of pre-revolutionary experts in the second half of the 1920-s are presented. It is convincingly proved that intelligentsia haven't turned into the detached onlooker, the feasible participation in country life it contributed to its further progressive development.

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