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intelligentsia|ɪntɛlɪˈdʒɛntsɪə; formerly also ɪntɛlɪˈgɛntsɪə|
Also (formerly) intelligenzia.
[f. Russ. intelligéntsiya, ad. L. intelligentia intelligence n.]
The part of a nation, orig. in pre-revolutionary Russia, that aspires to intellectual activity; the class of society regarded as possessing culture and political initiative.
1907M. Baring Year in Russia vii. 77 They [sc. the revolutionaries] fear that if the question of a Republic is brought forward there will be a general massacre of the educated bourgeoisie, the so-called ‘Intelligenzia’. 1910― Landmarks Russian Lit. iii. 68 Chekov has depicted the pessimism and the ineffectiveness of the ‘intelligenzia’. 1914Round Table Dec. 115 The importance and meaning of the so-called intelligentsia. 1916H. G. Wells Mr. Britling i. ii. 62 They are the sort of equivalent of the Russian Intelligentsia, an irresponsible middle class with ideas. 1921A. Huxley Let. 31 May (1969) 197 The English colony [at Florence] is a queer collection; a sort of decayed provincial intelligentsia. 1922C. E. M. Joad Highbrows vi. 224 Those waifs and strays of the intelligentsia who had resolutely refused to participate in the war. 1922C. Sidgwick Victorian xxviii. 211 He told me ..that he belonged to the Intelligentsia and that he was out to shoot capitalists. 1924Galsworthy White Monkey i. ix, It was not the intelligentsia, but just intellectual society, which was gathered there. 1940Wodehouse Eggs, Beans & Crumpets 75 It was a painful shock to the intelligentsia..when they discovered that their old friend was not going to prove the geyser of easy money they had anticipated. 1949I. T. Sanders Balkan Village i. 7 The intelligentsia, as they were called by the [Bulgarian] peasants, were the most influential group in the community... I was sure to find several of them playing cards... The mayor..could watch..the municipal building... The priest could look..to the church just beyond. The village doctor's husband was near in case his wife needed him. 1956R. Redfield Peasant Society & Culture ii. 61 To the administrative and cultural intermediaries between local life and wider life the word ‘intelligentsia’ has long been applied. 1971H. Seton-Watson in A. Bullock 20th Cent. 139/1 The revolutionary propensity of the intelligentsia has been definitely correlated with the extent of the cultural gap between the educated élite and the mass of the people. |