About the book: 2022 / "The intelligentsia can go very far ahead of its people, but it will always and in everything, in denial as in affirmation, remain a representative and a product of their culture,” said P.N. Miliukov (1859 – 1943), whose articles are presented in this book. A Russian politician, historian and publicist, he was the leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party ("People's Freedom Party"). This party was organized by representatives of the Russian intelligentsia and the liberal nobility, it included professors, teachers, doctors, office workers, representatives of the urban middle class. Considering democracy the only possible way of development of the country, Milyukov noted, however, that “after all the disappointments, the masses are afraid of the emergence of any other , unknown and suspicious to them.” With this fear, he explained the “black demagoguery” that was carried out by certain circles in Russia, directing the masses against “liberalists” and “traitors to the Russian people,” which included the intelligentsia. “A patriotic intellectual would be glad to become just a patriot,” noted Miliukov, - but at the sight of the monopolists of patriotism, an inexorable question immediately arises in his mind: “Who prepared the difficult trials for Russia?.. At such moments, the “emigrant” point of view becomes the only luminous point in the darkness and irresistibly attracts wider and wider circles of public opinion "The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.