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“WE ARE INTELLECTUALS OURSELVES”: THE ATTITUDE OF THE LEADERS OF THE RUSSIAN RIGHT-WING PARTIES OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY TO THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENTSIA

History of Russia: from ancient times to 1917 , UDC: 94(47).083 DOI: 10.25688/20-76-9105.2024.54.2.04

Authors

  • Ivanov Andrey A. Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor

Annotation

The article examines the attitude of the leaders of the Russian right-wing parties and unions of the early XXth century (Black Hundreds and nationalists) to the Russian intelligentsia. It is noted that despite the attempts of representatives of the oppositional and revolutionary-minded intelligentsia to present the right-wing monarchists as unintelligent and uncultured, the latter had a significant number of highly educated people in the ranks of their parties, whose occupation gives every reason to attribute them to the Russian intelligentsia. Russian right-wing leaders’ attitude towards the intelligentsia of their day was shown to be negative, since it was perceived as a force hostile to Orthodoxy, the tsarist autocracy and the interests of the Russian people. Pointing to the isolation of the liberal intelligentsia from the real needs and interests of the people, the right began to reproach it with lack of character, cowardice, lack of managerial experience, indulgence in separatism and revolution, conscious and unconscious activities that harm the interests of Russia. At the same time, the leaders of the right-wing parties did not deny the importance of the intelligentsia for the country, they also considered themselves an intelligentsia, but not cosmopolitan, but national; they argued that the country needed an intelligentsia serving the interests of the nation and the state, and not fighting them. Speaking as supporters of the formation of a national patriotic intelligentsia in the country, the leaders of the right warned oppositional intellectuals that their flirtations with the revolution would lead not only to the collapse of the autocracy, but also to the subsequent defeat of the intelligentsia itself.

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Ivanov, A. A. (2024). “WE ARE INTELLECTUALS OURSELVES”: THE ATTITUDE OF THE LEADERS OF THE RUSSIAN RIGHT-WING PARTIES OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY TO THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENTSIA Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", № 2 (54), 46. https://doi.org/10.25688/20-76-9105.2024.54.2.04
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