Definition of Intelligentsias

1. intelligentsia [n] - See also: intelligentsia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intelligentsias

intelligences
intelligencies
intelligencing
intelligency
intelligent
intelligent dance music
intelligent design
intelligent falling
intelligent life
intelligent system
intelligent systems
intelligential
intelligentially
intelligently
intelligentsia
intelligentsias (current term)
intelligibility
intelligible
intelligibleness
intelligibly
intemerate
intemerateness
intemperament
intemperance
intemperances
intemperancy
intemperant
intemperate
intemperately
intemperateness

Literary usage of Intelligentsias

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rise of Nations in the Soviet Union: American Foreign Policy and the by Michael Mandelbaum (1991)
"... newly urbanized populations, national intelligentsias, and ethnic political elites contributed to the more complete elaboration of nationhood. ..."

2. Some Impressions of My Elders by St. John Greer Ervine (1922)
"... a liberal attitude was certain of the appreciation of the intelligentsias acknowledged critical leaders, and hence of a wide and enthusiastic audience. ..."

3. The First Yugoslavia: Search for a Viable Political System by Alex N. Dragnich (1983)
"In general, the peasant masses generally did not engage in the romantic emotionalism of the Yugoslav idea, and the two intelligentsias—Serb and Croat—that ..."

4. Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union by Roman Szporluk (2000)
"... Russian cultural influence, but he worried that their emerging intelligentsias were looking toward Warsaw or Ankara for inspiration, rather than Moscow. ..."

5. Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Country Studies by Glenn Eldon Curtis (1995)
"... the Caucasus region: the imposition of tsarist rule; the rise of a market and capitalist economy; and the emergence of secular national intelligentsias. ..."

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