Victor Pelevin. Intelligentsia vs. Intellectuals.
Victor Pelevin “The Sacred Book of Werewolf”
In speaking of intelligentsia’s debt of guilt to the nation, he kept using two terms that I thought were synonyms – ‘intelligentsia’ and ‘intellectuals’. After a while I just had to ask:
‘But what difference is there between a member of the intelligentsia and an intellectual?”
‘There’s a very big difference,’ [...]
