Who are some of Russia’s greatest thinkers?  Whomever they may be, they got left off a long list by the magazine Foreign Policy.  Blogger poemless has a good long post running down some of the potential names from the Russian brain trust from across the ideological spectrum.  Check it out and put in your vote.

What Russians could be on a list using FP’s bizarro criteria? The other, far more interesting question, who are Russia’s leading intellectuals? The answers are not obvious to me; I rely on journalists like those at Foreign Policy to tell me these things! Also, being an American, living in America, I can’t pretend to have any special insight about the intellectual movers and shakers in a far away land. Although I suppose the fact gives me a clearer grasp of their global influence than their compatriots might have. I’ll give it is a go.