Etymology of "intelligentsiya"

[Katz, Michael]

There is also a wonderful discussion of the term in Leopold Labedz, "The
Structure of the Soviet Intelligentsia" in the journal Daedalus, Summer,
1960, Pp. 503-4 that ends with the following definition:

"Let us say that an intelligent is one... who thinks and talks and writes of
change.... An intelligent is an intelligent."

Michael Katz
Middlebury College

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> Dear Rolf Fieguth,
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> Richard Pipes has a detailed history of the word and of its different
> meanings in
> the course of Russian history. (see chapt 10 "Intelligentsia" in Russia
> Under
> The Old Regime.
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> Konstantin Starikov
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> Dear SEELangers,
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> who knows competently about the word history of the Russian term
> "intelligentsiya" - by what semantic shifts and under which foreign
> language
> influences the word (orignally stemming from Latin intelligentia) acquired
> its actual meaning?
> Thanks in advance
>
> Rolf Fieguth
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