The Role of Soviet Intelligentsia in Nationalist Discourse: Exploring Literaturnaya Gazeta Using Semi-structured Text Analysis

• In Event: Civil Society, Protest, Text Analysis

Brief Overview

This paper uses structured text analysis on historical primary sources to investigate the consequences of the entrance of cultural intelligentsia into formal Soviet politics in the late 1980s for nationalist mobilization.

Authors

• Matthew John Reichert, Harvard University

• Nicole Kagan, Harvard University