Anyone have reading material on the Intelligentsia of Russia during the late 1800s?

by moartuba

Hi all,

To preface, I'm sorry if this isn't the appropriate question for this subreddit. :(

After trying to post a comment earlier, I realized I really want to contribute more effectively and to do that, I'm looking for more material from the late 1800s on specifically the Intelligentsia of Russia.

I would prefer for non-fiction works that either portray the views of the intelligentsia (on themselves or peasants). I am also looking for non-fiction works based on parody of the intelligentsia.

So far I have read / am reading:

Author Book
Glenn Mack Russia Historical Overview
Various authors? Food in the Rus
Pokhlebkin A History of Vodka
Darra Goldstein Gastronomic Reforms under Peter the Great
G.E. Munro Food in Catherinian St. Petersburg
Aalexander Pushkin Eugene Onegin
Nikolai Gogol The Old World Landowners
Elena Molokhvets A Gift to Young Housewives
Ronald D. Leblanc Tolstoy's Way of No Flesh
Anya Von Bremzen Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
Venedikt Yerofeyev From Moscow to Petushki
Slavenka Drakulic They Would Never Hurt a Fly
Jan T. Gross Neighbors
Vasily Grossman Everything Flows
Masha Gessen The Man Wwithout a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
Simon Sebag Montefiore Stalin: In the Court of the Red Tsar
Фёдор Михайлович достоевский идиот
Фёдор Михайлович достоевский Записки из подполья

Any help would be greatly appreciated and I hope to better help this community :)

kieslowskifan

One very important anthology dealing with educated society is Between Tsar and People:Educated Society and the Quest for Public Identity in Late Imperial Russia edited by Edith W. Clowes, Samuel D. Kassow and James L. West. It has a goodly number of important essays that subsequently became common points of reference in Russian studies such as Alfred Rieber's concept of a sedimentary society.