Thank you for the essay and links to many other works. I apologize, but I believe the term “intelligentsia” in the paragraph about the Russian revolution is used incorrectly. This is not how we/the generation of my parents/grandparents living in the USSR used it. “Intelligentsia” was supposedly the intellectual minority standing up to …
Thank you for the essay and links to many other works. I apologize, but I believe the term “intelligentsia” in the paragraph about the Russian revolution is used incorrectly. This is not how we/the generation of my parents/grandparents living in the USSR used it. “Intelligentsia” was supposedly the intellectual minority standing up to the regime (The likes of Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn), Reps of Intelligentsia were publicly demonized, portraid as the off springs of the oppressors, shamed and sent into distant cities or cancelled into Gulags. What I think Batya is describing in her text we (the Soviets) referred to as Nomenklatura. That was tje real-time privileged hiding behind the holly war for social justice. I read the paragraph twice to ensure I understand it correctly and i think I m right… Sorry for jumping in again like this. Going back to the article.. really enjoy the read. 🤓
Thank you for the essay and links to many other works. I apologize, but I believe the term “intelligentsia” in the paragraph about the Russian revolution is used incorrectly. This is not how we/the generation of my parents/grandparents living in the USSR used it. “Intelligentsia” was supposedly the intellectual minority standing up to the regime (The likes of Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn), Reps of Intelligentsia were publicly demonized, portraid as the off springs of the oppressors, shamed and sent into distant cities or cancelled into Gulags. What I think Batya is describing in her text we (the Soviets) referred to as Nomenklatura. That was tje real-time privileged hiding behind the holly war for social justice. I read the paragraph twice to ensure I understand it correctly and i think I m right… Sorry for jumping in again like this. Going back to the article.. really enjoy the read. 🤓