ABSTRACT
Fourteen years ago I was writing a general analysis of the Soviet intelligentsia. Since The Soviet Intelligentsia was published in 1973 I have continued to do research in this area but my research has been more specialized. I have been concerned almost exclusively with the position of the intelligentsia within Soviet society; with the level of professional training of the intelligentsia, with differences between national intelligentsias and with differences between female and male intelligentsia. The results of these investigations were presented at various conferences held in Sydney, Adelaide and Canberra between 1976 and 1981. The last of these papers, presented originally at an Australian National University seminar on the intelligentsia in July 1981 and in a somewhat revised form to postgraduate seminars at Essex and Birmingham Universities in February 1982, provides the basis for this chapter.
