Knowledge and their friends. Compare the history of the Russian intelligentsia

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 is either 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 the European interior. Denis Zavizhkov - candidate of historical sciences, scientific? An employee of the German Historical Institute in Moscow, author of works on the history of Russia and Europe of the XVIII - early XX centuries