ABSTRACT
The previous chapter explored the attributes of the debate about intelligentsia that captured the minds of intellectuals in the 1990s. Many have referred to what was going on in academic and media publications as the crisis of the intelligentsia. Most recent studies in Russia (Pustovaya, 2008) have concluded that:
the so-called crisis of intelligentsia in Russia has only defined the change of values, that constituted the core of the traditional intelligentsia myth. The mythology of the intelligentsia as a phenomenon of spiritual and public life in Russia will continue into the new millennium, as well as the debate about the intelligentsia aiding its self-identification.
