Knowledge and their friends. Comparative history of the Russian intelligentsia. Razvizhkov D.A.

The word "intelligentsia" is Russian Latinism, and the phenomenon itself has a pronounced Russian specificity. The intelligentsia in Russia was traditionally evaluated by the Hamburg account. She was adored, worshiped her, she was criticized, humiliated and destroyed in all possible ways. Of course, the intelligentsia became the basis of the Russian culture of the New Age and a powerful international brand. But who is he - the Russian intellectual: the ruler of the thoughts or the arrogant and torn from the life of the "Znayka"? Was the intelligentsia a unique Russian phenomenon? How did she correlate and interact with the educated class of other European countries? Comparing the key concepts and ideas of this influential social environment, the author of the book creates its verbal portrait in a European interior.

Denis Zavizhkov is a candidate of historical sciences, a researcher at the German Historical Institute in Moscow, the author of works on the history of Russia and Europe of the XVIII - early XX centuries.