@article {22865,
	title = {Literary Reflections of Elitocide: Georgy Demidov and Precursors},
	journal = {Verbeia},
	volume = {3},
	year = {2019},
	month = {Nov. 2019},
	pages = {83-105},
	abstract = {\&nbsp;Whereas the killing of the elites, whether as part of genocide, as a bid for enslavement of a community, or as an expression of a social ressentiment, dates back to ancient times, it is owing to the atrocities of the twentieth century that histories of elitocide assembled the critical mass for the concept to emerge. This paper is devoted to literary reflections of elitocide, many of which can likewise be recognized as such only after the phenomenon itself has crystallized in collective memory. Literary treatments of the issue of elitocide includes works by Dostoevsky (The Devils), H. G. Wells (The Time Machine), and Nabokov (Bend Sinister), but my main example is the theme of the destruction of the most talented in the Gulag stories by Georgy Demidov.\&nbsp;},
	url = {https://journals.ucjc.edu/VREF/article/view/4133/3025}
}
