History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev

The Birth of the Intelligentsia (1x11)

Air date: Mar 23, 2022

This lecture examines the emergence of one of the most important social and cultural groups in Russian history—the intelligentsia—and the characteristics that united them, with special emphasis on the arguments of a single individual, Petr Chaadaev, whose ideas about Russia's past and future both shocked and inspired many educated Russians.