INTELLIGENTSIA


Meaning of INTELLIGENTSIA in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

revolutionary

The revolutionary intelligentsia became fanatically convinced of its own exclusive moral and intellectual superiority.

During the 1880s Marxism began to gain currency among the revolutionary intelligentsia .

The effect has been to highlight weaknesses in each of the traditional interpretations and to demythologize the revolutionary intelligentsia .

The key to the protest of the revolutionary intelligentsia lies in their psychology.

There is still no adequate head count of the revolutionary intelligentsia .

The revolutionary intelligentsia seemed doomed to doctrinaire squabbles over increasingly irrelevant issues.

The revolutionary intelligentsia were to assume an importance out of all proportion to their meagre numbers.

The same point may be made about the revolutionary intelligentsia in general.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The demonstrators belong to the middle classes and the intelligentsia , which have suffered most as a result of the government's economic policies.

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But the contribution that the intelligentsia made to its development represented their supreme service to the revolution.

During the 1880s Marxism began to gain currency among the revolutionary intelligentsia .

He developed a strategy skilfully designed to establish intelligentsia leadership over this revolt.

In the absence of a vigorous middle class the intelligentsia lacked any effective levers through which to bring about change.

Moua was part of the tiny Hmong intelligentsia , an educated son of a clan elder.

The party represented the most effective political organization of the new class of intelligentsia .

The revolutionary Marxist ideology adopted by the intelligentsia began to merge with the working-class movement.

The subjective role of the intelligentsia describes their self-perception, their hopes, their dreams, their motives.

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