Social class in Poland

thumb|300px|"Evening Party" by Vladimir Makovsky (1897). Three generations of Russian intelligentsia discuss current issues. The intelligentsia is a status class composed of the university-educated people of a society who engage in the complex mental labours by which they critique, shape, and lead in the politics, policies, and culture of their society; as such, the intelligentsia consists of scholars, academics, teachers, journalists, and literary writers. Conceptually, the intelligentsia status class arose in the late 18th century, during the Partitions of Poland (1772–1795). Etymologically,

upright=1.25|thumb|Szlachta in costumes of the voivodeships of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th and 18th century.]] upright=1.25|thumb|right|Journey of a Magnates of Poland and Lithuania|Polish Lord During the Times of King [[Augustus III of Poland, by Jan Chełmiński, 1880.]] thumb|right|Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, a nobleman from 18th century Poland and the Enlightenment

thumb|Moscow Kremlin, where the highest of the elite Soviet nomenklatura lived The nomenklatura (; from , system of names) were a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in the bureaucracy, running all spheres of those countries' activity: government, industry, agriculture, education, etc., whose positions were granted only with approval by the communist party of each country or region. While in the Russian language the term номенклатура has the same generic meaning as "nomenclature", in the context of the politi

250px|thumb|Abelard Giza dressed as dresiarz during his performance at Festiwal Kabaretu 2007 in [[Zielona Góra, Poland.]] ' or ' (plural or ) is a Polish subculture or class of young males who stereotypically live in urban tower blocks or tenement houses. They are usually portrayed as undereducated, unemployed, aggressive, and anti-social. The phenomenon was first observed in the 1990s and is sometimes compared to the British chavs, Scottish neds, Australian bogans or Russian gopniks. It would later partially merge with the hooligan subcultures and is sometimes attributed to football hooligan

Obrazovanshchina (, 'educationdom', 'educaties', 'smatterers') is a Russian ironical, derogatory term for a category of people with superficial education who lack the higher ethics of an educated person.