“Poor Russian intelligentsia! Every time our domestic troubles worsen and we don’t know how to get out of the difficulties in which history has placed us, we invariably find the same culprit of all troubles, a kind of “switchman” on the difficult path of our progress - the poor Russian intelligentsia . In the best case, when she is not put in the dock and she is not threatened with complete condemnation, a claim is brought against her “spiritual values”, and the litigation ends with one or another more or less significant reduction of these latter. And the most surprising thing is that the lawsuits and processes are carried out not by those who are providential persecutors of the intelligentsia, but by those who themselves stand in its ranks and can be considered the true and most typical intellectuals...”