3 sentences with 'intelligentsia'

Example sentences and phrases with the word intelligentsia and other words derived from it.


« The problem with being a member of the intelligentsia in Russia, however, was that reading or discussing anything to do with politics was in itself sufficient cause for arrest and exile to Siberia. »
« These people, almost all of them nobility, formed the Russian intelligentsia: a small class of educated and highly cultured people who were at the forefront of Russian literature and artistic creation. »
« Before the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, young members of the intelligentsia formed a social movement known as the Narodniks. The Narodniks advocated "returning to the people", living among the former serfs and trying to educate them, which they did during the spring of 1874. »

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