On the artistic intelligentsia and the social contract during the perestroika period (1985–1991)
https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6401-2025-4-130-143
Abstract
The article considers the features of the social contract between the artistic intelligentsia and the Soviet government during the era of late socialism and the period of perestroika (1985–1991) in the USSR. On the eve of perestroika, the artistic intelligentsia is in a state of creative lack of freedom and the party administering. The social contract between the government and the artistic intelligentsia is maintained during perestroika through democratization, glasnost and freedom of creative work, through market, liberal freedoms and consumption, through the “intelligentsia’s rise to power”.
Supporting agencies: The article was carried out in the framework of the Russian Science Foundation grant, no. 23-18-00093, project “The fate of the social contract in Russia. The evolution of ideas and lessons of implementation”.
About the Authors
G. V. Tartygasheva
Russian State University for the Humanities
Россия
Россия
Galina V. Tartygasheva, Cand. of Sci. (Sociology), associate professor
bldg. 6, bld. 6, Miusskaya Square, Moscow, 125047
G. K. Urazalieva
Russian State University for the Humanities
Россия
Россия
Gulshat K. Urazalieva, Cand. of Sci. (Philosophy), associate professor
bldg. 6, bld. 6, Miusskaya Square, Moscow, 125047
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Tartygasheva G.V., Urazalieva G.K. On the artistic intelligentsia and the social contract during the perestroika period (1985–1991). RSUH/RGGU BULLETIN. Series Philosophy. Social Studies. Art Studies. 2025;(4):130-143. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6401-2025-4-130-143
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