Intelligentsia
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The intelligentsia is a status class composed of the university-educated people of a society who engage in the complex mental labours by which they critique, shape, and lead in the politics, policies,
"Evening Company" by Vladimir Makovsky (1897). Three generations of Russian intelligentsia discuss current issues.
In Russia, the writer Pyotr Boborykin defined the intelligentsia as both the managers of a society, and as the creators of society's high culture.
The surgeon Ludwik Rydygier and his assistants. Painting by Leon Wyczółkowski
Vissarion Belinsky
Special Prosecution Book – Poland was a list prepared by Nazi Germany immediately before the invasion of Poland containing more than 61,000 members of Polish elites: activists, intelligentsia, scholar
Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen. symbols
Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen. Page with names under the letter "G" with abbreviations. EK stands for Einsatzkommando and EG represents an escaped prisoner.
Execution of Poles in Kórnik by SS-Einsatzgruppe, 20 October 1939. Image from German Federal Archive