Russian Intellectual Studies: Specifics, Main Scientific Schools, and Prospects

Abstract

The article examines the phenomenon of intelligentsia as an object of modern Russian science. The authors focus on the contribution of various Russian scientific schools that study the past and present of Russian intelligentsia, e.g., the school founded by Professor V.S. Memetov at the Ivanovo State University, as well as scientific schools in the Urals, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Omsk. The Intelligentsia and the World is a twenty-year-old periodic edition that publishes research connected with intelligentsia and intellectuals in different historical periods. The article features methodology issues, including the activity approach, which is very popular in domestic Russian science. The authors believe that the domestic intellectual studies need a wide range of methods to approach a number of unresolved issues, as well as a stronger interuniversity cooperation.