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The academic career of internationally recognized Professor of Slavic Studies Magnus Ljunggren spans more than a half century. Here he looks back over his meetings with prominent members of the Russian intelligentsia who from the liberalizing XXII Party Congress in 1961 and down to the present have in various forms struggled with the totalitarian structures of Soviet and post-Soviet society. As a literary scholar Ljunggren has focused on Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg, Russian Symbolism and Russian Silver Age literature and culture. His memoirs reflect on how his study of Symbolism and his commitment to the Russian civil rights movement over the years have stimulated each other and contributed to a deeper understanding of Russia's distinctive character. Ljunggren's gallery of intimate and colorful portraits includes Bulat Okudzhava, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Joseph Brodsky, Viktor Shklovsky, Lidia Chukovskaya, and Nina Berberova.

Russian literature --- Soviet literature --- Litterateurs --- Slavists --- Scholars --- Intellectuals --- Intellectuals --- Intelligentsia --- Persons --- Social classes --- Specialists --- Persons --- Learning and scholarship --- Slavicists --- Area specialists --- Literary life --- Philologists --- Literatures of the Soviet Union --- Study and teaching. --- Study and teaching. --- Ljunggren, Magnus. --- I︠U︡nggren, Magnus --- Soviet Union --- Russia (Federation) --- Soviet Union --- Intellectual life. --- Intellectual life. --- Intellectual life