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
Anti-intellectualism
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Anti-intellectualism refers to a range of attitudes, characterized by skepticism, mistrust or criticism of intellect, intellectuals, or intellectualism. It is commonly expressed as questioning the val
Intelligentsia
…class constraints, allowing for a critical and unbiased perspective. This intellectual autonomy is a defining characteristic of the intelligentsia. Anti-intellectualism Creative class…
In the Night of the Long Batons (29 July 1966), the federal police physically purged politically incorrect academics who opposed the right-wing military dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía (1966–1970) in Argentina from five faculties of the University of Buenos Aires.
Some of the Armenian intellectuals who were detained, deported, and killed in the Armenian genocide of 1915