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On Public Intellectuals and Their Conceptual Frameworks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Maria Todorova
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Critical Forum on Ukraine
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Slavic Review , Volume 74 , Issue 4 , Winter 2015 , pp. 708 - 714
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 2015

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2 Alan Lightman, “The Role of the Public Intellectual,” MIT Communications Forum, at http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/papers/lightman.html (last accessed July 15,2015).

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