intelligentsia meaning
EN[ɪntɛlɪˈd͡ʒɛntsɪə] [ɪntɛlɪˈɡɛntsɪə]WIntelligentsia
- The intelligentsia, from Latin: intellegentia (Polish: inteligencja, Russian: интеллигенция, pronounced [ɪntʲɪlʲɪˈɡʲentsɨjə]) is a social class of people engaged in complex mental labour aimed at guiding or critiquing,
- In a social sense, the stratum of intelligentsia arose first in Russian-controlled Poland during the age of Partitions.
- In pre-revolutionary Russia the term was first used to describe people possessing cultural and political initiative.
FR intelligentsia
- NounPLintelligentsias
- The intellectual élite of a society (especially in nineteenth-century Poland, in Russia and later the Soviet Union).
- The intellectual élite of a society (especially in nineteenth-century Poland, in Russia and later the Soviet Union).
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