The word Intellectual or Intellectuals is a person or people possessing a highly developed intellect. Intelligentsia is a word to identified Russian Intellectual. This word came or was based on a word of Latin origin and it meaning is intelligence. In the 1870s this word was used for Russian Intellectual. The word supplied a taxonomic label for a distinct group of people whose professional identity or public function were no longer described by the traditional categories of the Russian social structure into which they were born, nor did they fit the categories of the state’s own rankings and definitions of state service.("Russian Intelligentsia - …show more content…
He extolled “universal intelligence,” “ universal reason,” “ one single intellectual force in the whole universe,” and “the unique vision of the future granted to some chosen men”whose selfless labors were enlisted to impart the world historical wisdom to reality. His views were unabashedly elitist that he had always thought that humanity could advance only by following its elite, by following those who have the mission of leading