The analysis of «intelligentsia» concept in the context of social-psychological research

The article reveals basic approaches to the study of Russian intelligentsia, its origin and its public role. It presents psychological characteristics based on the analysis of socio-political journalism of the XIX century. Opportunities of social-psychological research of this social group are defined within the limits of intellectual discourse. Its basic characteristics such as ambivalence, axiology, emotionalism and superconnectivity have been specified.