Russian intelligentsia

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The Russian intelligentsia was a socially conscious, educated class of writers, thinkers, and professionals in Imperial Russia known for its critical stance toward autocracy and its influential role in cultural and political life.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf intelligentsia
social class
advocatedFor emancipation of the serfs
expansion of civil rights
freedom of expression
political reform
social justice
conceptualizedAs moral conscience of society
continuedAs Soviet intelligentsia
country Russian Empire
developedFrom educated elite of the Russian Empire
emergedInContextOf decline of serfdom
growth of universities in Russia
modernization of the Russian Empire
fieldOfActivity education
journalism
literature
philosophy
political activism
hasCharacteristic cosmopolitan
critical of autocracy
culturally influential
educated
morally idealistic
often alienated from state power
often oppositional to the tsarist regime
politically engaged
secularizing influence
socially conscious
hasNotableMember Alexander Herzen
Andrei Sakharov
Anton Chekhov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Leo Tolstoy
Mikhail Bakunin
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Petr Lavrov
Pyotr Kropotkin
linked to: Peter Kropotkin

Vissarion Belinsky
Vladimir Lenin
includesProfession artists
clergy sympathetic to reform
doctors
engineers
journalists
lawyers
scientists
university professors
writers
influenced Russian cultural life
Russian literature
Russian philosophy
Russian political movements
Russian revolutionary movements
influencedBy Enlightenment ideas
Marxism
Russian Orthodox moral tradition
Western European liberal thought
nihilism
romantic nationalism
socialism
language Russian
location Imperial Russia
linked to: Russian Empire
opposed censorship in the Russian Empire
tsarist autocracy
playedRoleIn Russian Revolution of 1905
Russian Revolution of 1917
linked to: Russian Revolution
relatedConcept intelligentsia
selfImage critic of power
servant of the people
socialOrigin nobility
seminary-educated clergy
urban middle classes
timePeriod 19th century
early 20th century

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Vladimir Kovalevsky associatedWith Russian intelligentsia
Arbat District historicalSignificance associated with Russian intelligentsia
linked to: Russian intelligentsia
Pyotr Chaadayev influenced Russian Westernizers
linked to: Russian intelligentsia
Vera Figner partOf Russian revolutionary intelligentsia
linked to: Russian intelligentsia