Before revision: Obrazovanshchina (, "educationdom", "educaties",Note: 'образован-' + '-щина': a noun derived from 'образование', education with suffix '-щина', similar in funcions with English suffixes such as -ism, -ness, -dom, -ing "smatterers") is a Russian ironical, derogatory term for a category of people with superficial education without higher ethics of an educated person.Geoffrey A. Hosking, "The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within", 1993, ISBN 0674304438, p. 403 The term was introduced by Alexander Solzhenitsyn as a criticism of the transformation of the of Russian intelligentsia, which, in his opinion had lost high ethical values, in his 1974 essay Obrazovanshchina (translated as The Smatterers).ОБРАЗОВАНЩИНА, Obrazovanshchina essay at Solzhenitsin's official website (retrieved February 15, 2014) The essay and the term caused criticism from liberal intteligentsia , such as a long-time Solzhenitsyn's opponent Grigory PomerantsГригорий Померанц.
After revision: Obrazovanshchina (, "educationdom", "educaties",Note: 'образован-' + '-щина': a noun derived from 'образование', education with suffix '-щина', similar in funcions with English suffixes such as -ism, -ness, -dom, -ing "smatterers") is a Russian ironical, derogatory term for a category of people with superficial education without higher ethics of an educated person.Geoffrey A. Hosking, "The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within", 1993, ISBN 0674304438, p. 403 The term was introduced by Alexander Solzhenitsyn as a criticism of the transformation of the of Russian intelligentsia, which, in his opinion had lost high ethical values, in his 1974 essay Obrazovanshchina (translated as The Smatterers).ОБРАЗОВАНЩИНА, Obrazovanshchina essay at Solzhenitsin's official website (retrieved February 15, 2014) The essay and the term caused criticism from liberal inteligentsia , such as a long-time Solzhenitsyn's opponent Grigory PomerantsГригорий Померанц.