The Modern Donetsk Intelligentsia: Social Portrait

Abstract

The author of the article examined the peculiarities of formation of the modern Donetsk intelligentsia social portrait. The investigation resulted in singling out the principal features of a modern Donetsk intellectual: on the one hand, the social and economic capital limitation, estrangement from the state, political passivity, low material position, deprivation, nostalgia for the Soviet past, transition from intellectual activity into the branches of economy, politics, and on the other hand – culture, altruistic ethics, aspiration to enlighten people and to consider his/her profession as calling, mission