(Review of the round table held jointly by the Department of Sociology of the Russian State University for the Humanities and the Research Center at the Institute of Youth) The analysis of the role of the Russian intelligentsia in public life, the transformation of its forms is actualized in the context of socio-political instability. Along with this, there is also a need to respond to an important date of cultural development of our society - 90 years since the publication of the collection "Milestones". Zh. T.Toshchenko, Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Sociological Research", Head of the Department of Sociology of the Russian State Pedagogical University, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, opened the round table with a description of this social and internal scientific situation. He invited the audience to consider the Russian intelligentsia as a special historical phenomenon that has survived the vicissitudes of almost two centuries and has not lost its main unique features. First, it is not just the possession of knowledge, but the desire to convey this knowledge to the people. The idea of serving the people has always been a binding force in the behavior of those who call themselves intellectuals. Secondly, it is a statement of morality, good-will, readiness for self-sacrifice. Third, it is a sincere appeal to all of humanity. The Russian intelligentsia has always cared about what happens in other countries, what happens to other peoples. Zav. At the Department of Sociology and Law of the MATI - Russian State Technological University named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky, Doctor of Sociology I. S. Bolotin drew attention to the fact that "Milestones" laid not only the tradition of analyzing the essence of the intelligentsia, but also formed a corpus of its basic concepts. Perhaps the most controversial was the division of the concept of "intelligentsia" into broad and narrow interpretations, according to which it is interpreted not as a community o ... Читать далее