Who organized the trials of Russia? Opinion of the Russian intelligentsia
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“The intelligentsia can go ahead of its people very far, but it is always in everything, in denial, as in the statement, will remain the representative and product of its culture,” P.N. Milyukov (1859-1943), whose articles are presented in this book. The Russian politician, historian and publicist, he was the leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party ("Party of Folk Freedom") This party was organized by representatives of the Russian intelligentsia and the liberal nobility, it included professors, teachers, doctors, employees, and representatives of the city middle class.
Considering democracy the only possible way to develop the country, Milyukov noted, however, that after all the disappointments of the mass, they are afraid of the appearance of any other, for them unknown and suspicious. With this fear, he explained the "Black Demagogy", which led certain circles in Russia, directing the masses against the "liberalists" and the traitors of the Russian people, among which the intelligentsia was included.
"Intellectual -patriot would be glad to become just a patriot, ”Milyukov noted,“ but at the sight of the monopolists of patriotism in his mind, the inexorable question immediately arises: “Who prepared the difficult trials of Russia? .. At such moments of the" emigrant "point of view It becomes the only luminous point among the darkness and irresistibly attracts increasingly and wider circles of public opinion. ”
Considering democracy the only possible way to develop the country, Milyukov noted, however, that after all the disappointments of the mass, they are afraid of the appearance of any other, for them unknown and suspicious. With this fear, he explained the "Black Demagogy", which led certain circles in Russia, directing the masses against the "liberalists" and the traitors of the Russian people, among which the intelligentsia was included.
"Intellectual -patriot would be glad to become just a patriot, ”Milyukov noted,“ but at the sight of the monopolists of patriotism in his mind, the inexorable question immediately arises: “Who prepared the difficult trials of Russia? .. At such moments of the" emigrant "point of view It becomes the only luminous point among the darkness and irresistibly attracts increasingly and wider circles of public opinion. ”
Author:
Author:Милюков Павел Николаевич
Cover:
Cover:Hard
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- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:Social Science & Politics
- Category:Magazines & Encyclopedia
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-00180-693-6
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