What Dostoyevsky & Chekhov disparagingly called the "intelligentsia" is known as the "artistic community" or the "creative class" nowadays.
@pgirvan The term "creative class" in the Russian context actually refers to exactly that (along with upper-middle class bourgeoisie). :)
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@NinaByzantina Understood. Lenin's epithet "feces of the nation" clearly applies to the examples I listed.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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