Смерть интеллигенции

Abstract

The article raises the problem of the fate of Russian intelligentsia seen via the objective trends in change of the latter’s place and role in society. Considered is the essence of the intelligentsia with identification of its main components – messianism, the myth of oppositional nature, the myth of enlightenment, the myth of freedom – from emergence of intelligentsia in a bureaucratic state, then Soviet intelligentsia always wanted by authorities to historic defeat in early 1990s, when it ceased to be a freedom-loving single class, and a need for its existence disappeared. A new political reality, professing the market dictatorship, activated a gene of death incorporated in intelligentsia which is seen as a purely local phenomenon, having no European analogue, and intelligentsia in Russia died following peasantry and proletariat. In a modern society a new stratum intellectuals who respect national values, traditions, principles of social justice and moral norms, including the Orthodox ethics is needed.