Intelligentsia | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 14/01/2019

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00:01:57 1 History
00:05:17 2 Poland
00:05:25 2.1 19th century
00:06:48 2.2 20th century
00:07:51 3 Russia
00:07:59 3.1 Imperial era
00:11:10 3.2 Bolshevik perspective
00:14:36 4 Soviet Union
00:15:19 5 Post-Soviet period
00:16:51 6 Usages
00:20:02 7 See also



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The intelligentsia (/ɪnˌtelɪˈdʒentsiə/) (Latin: intelligentia, Polish: inteligencja, Russian: интеллигенция, tr. intelligensiya, IPA: [ɪntʲɪlʲɪˈɡʲentsɨjə]) is a status class of educated people engaged in the complex mental labours that critique, guide, and lead in shaping the culture and politics of their society. As a status class, the intelligentsia includes artists, teachers and academics, writers, journalists, and the literary hommes de lettres. The intelligentsia status-class arose in the late 18th century, in Russian-controlled Poland, during the age of Partitions (1772–95). In the 19th century, the Polish intellectual Bronisław Trentowski coined the term intelligentcja (intellectuals) to identify and describe the educated and professionally-active social stratum of the patriotic bourgeoisie who could be the cultural leaders of Poland, then under the authoritarian régime of Russian Tsarist autocracy, from the late 18th-century to the early 20th century.In Russia, before the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) the term intelligentsiya described the status class of educated people whose cultural capital (schooling, education, enlightenment) allowed them to assume practical political leadership. In practice, the status and social function of the intelligentsia varied by society. In Eastern Europe, intellectuals were deprived of political influence and access to the effective levers of economic development; the intelligentsia were at the functional periphery of their societies. Whereas in Western Europe, especially in Germany and Great Britain, the Bildungsbürgertum (cultured bourgeoisie) and the British professions had defined roles as public intellectuals in their societies.