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 :)
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.