intelligentsia

[Joe Peschio]

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?


My personal favorite on the subject is M.L. Gasparov's "Intelligentsia i
revoliutsiia" in his Zapisi i vypiski. (Moscow: NLO, 2001), 84-95.

Besides being a great read, it has precisely the kind of philological
analysis you're looking for.

Cheers,
Joe Peschio



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