Intelligentsia as a phenomenon of the Eastern European social culture

Abstract

Presented article describes the structure of Weltanschauung of the intelligentsia in Belarus and Russia during the period from second part of nineteenth to the middle of twentieth century. It has been shown there that genesis of the «intelligentsias being» was always based on the antagonism between creative subject and his surrounding social reality. This antagonism would be realized in the transformation of social and organization structures of society. Intellectual's cognition tries to overcome these structures. Regardless of their political views and philosophical positions a number of thinkers intends to complete with society by their importance. A genius tries to show his equitable and self-dependence. In contrast to religion the intellectual creates his ideal by himself to come to believe in it finally.