Specificity of Formation and Dynamics of the Roles of Intellectual Elites in the Period of Socio-Political Transformations: the Example of a Thaw in the USSR

The purpose of the bachelor thesis is to determine how the roles of intellectuals in the USSR changed during the "thaw" and what was the specificity in their formation. In this research, we analyzed the problem of perception by the intellectual elite of socio-political transformations in Russia in the 1960s. We gave a theoretical approach for identifying the Soviet intellectual elite as a special cluster of the "sixties" in the history of Russia. We also made a detailed review of the literature in which we examined socio-political transformations. Comprehension of these concepts explains the appearance of the problems of research. To determine the dynamics of the roles of intellectual elites, we selected six dimensions that help to see how the relationship between intellectuals and authorities changed from opposition to promotion. We analyzed the motives and reaction of the creative intelligentsia for certain periods of political instability through historical documents, products of creativity and facts from the biography. As a result, we have constructed models for the interaction of power and the intellectual elite. Intellectuals chose the interaction model for the first time, which show the "thaw" as an important period in the political history of Russia.