Evsei Slonim would have seen himself as a member of the intelligentsia, a classless class whose features Nabokov described as”“the spirit of self-sacrifice, intense participation in political causes or political thought, intense sympathy for the underdog of any nationality, fanatical integrity, tragic inability to sink to compromise, true spirit of international responsibility.
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