Did the Loss of the Intelligentsia Ruin the USSR?

Prof. Polly Jones discusses the struggle experienced by the intelligentsia and how they went on to lead Glasnost

Watch the full lecture here: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-ussr-in-the-cold-war-years

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Professor Polly Jones

Professor Jones is Schrecker-Barbour Fellow and Associate Professor of Russian Literature at University College Oxford. She is a Fellow at University College. She is also a Lecturer at Brasenose College, Oxford.

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