Founding Convention of Russian Intelligentsia Congress

MOSCOW, RUSSIA. December 10, 1997. Convention Delegates: former President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev (R) and Ambassador of Russia in France Yury Ryzhov. The intelligentsia is a social class of people engaged in complex mental labor aimed at guiding or critiquing, or otherwise playing a leadership role in shaping a society's culture and politics. This therefore might include everyone from artists to school teachers, as well as academics, writers, journalists, and other hommes de lettres (men of letters) more usually thought of as being the main constituents of the intelligentsia. Intelligentsia is the subject of active polemics concerning its own role in the development of modern society not always positive historically, often contributing to higher degree of progress, but also to its backward movement. Alexander Yakovlev/TASS

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