Georgi Arkadyevich Arbatov

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Georgi Arkadjewitsch Arbatow ( Russian Георгий Аркадьевич Арбатов ; born May 19, 1923 in Cherson , Ukrainian SSR ; † October 1, 2010 in Moscow ) was a Soviet - Russian political scientist and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

Georgi Arkadyevich Arbatov (2005)

Life

Arbatov studied at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) and graduated in 1949 with a diploma in international law . Afterwards he was chief research editor for foreign journals. Between 1953 and 1957 he was head of department at the journal Вопросы философии (Philosophical Questions).

In 1954 he graduated from the MGIMO another postgraduate studies , which he in 1958 with a dissertation on the ideological role of the state with the promotion to the doctor of historical science graduated. From 1957 to 1959 he was head of department at the magazine Новое время (Neue Zeit), from 1959 to 1960 advisor to the magazine Коммунист (communist) and finally from 1960 to 1963 editor at the magazine Проблемы мира и социализма (Problems of peace and socialism ). He was then head of department at the Institute for World Economy and International Relations between 1963 and 1964 .

In 1964 he began his habilitation with a thesis on The ideological struggle in contemporary international relations . Between 1964 and 1967 he was an advisor to the Central Committee of the CPSU .

He then founded the Institute for American and Canadian Studies ( Институт США и Канады РАН ) at the Academy of Sciences in 1967 and was director of the institute until 1995. During this time he developed the institute into a center for the study of military, political, economic and social problems in the USA and Canada. At the same time he was head of a working group in the Central Committee of the CPSU between 1967 and 1976.

He was also deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1974 to 1989 and then deputy deputy until 1991 as a representative of the Academy of Sciences . After being a candidate for the CPSU Central Committee between 1976 and 1990, he was a member of the Central Committee from 1990 to 1991.

At the same time he was from 1985 to 1997 chairman of the Union of the United Nations of the USSR and then of Russia.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union , he was an advisor to the Duma and from 1991 to 1996 also an advisor to the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation .

After his retirement in 1995, he became an advisor to the Russian Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the Association for International Studies. In addition, he gave several lectures as part of his work as chairman of the Scientific Council for American Studies in cooperation with scientists from the USA and Germany . He was also the initiator and organizer of the annual US-Russian meeting on the development of bilateral relations, international security and the possibilities for resolving international conflicts. He was also an active participant in the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs and the resulting peace movement .

His son is the politician Alexei Georgjewitsch Arbatow , who was at times a member of the Duma for the Yabloko party .

honors and awards

Arbatov has received several awards, including the Order of Lenin , the Order of the October Revolution , the Order of the Great Patriotic War , the Order of the Red Star , the Order of the Red Banner of Labor , the Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland (2005) .

Fonts

Arbatow is the author of more than 100 books and specialist articles that have been translated into numerous languages. His most important publications include:

  • Идеологическая борьба в современных международных отношениях. Доктрина, методы и организация внешнеполитической пропаганды империализма, Moscow 1970; German translation: Ideological class struggle and imperialism , East Berlin 1972.
  • Глобальная стратегия США в условиях научно-технической революции (US Global Strategies Towards a Scientific and Technological Revolution), Moscow 1979.
  • (with Willem L. Oltmans ): The Soviet point of view. About the Western Policy of the USSR , Munich 1981, ISBN 3-8077-0165-6 .
  • Свидетельство современника (testimony of a contemporary), Moscow 1991; 2nd edition and title: Затянувшееся выздоровление (1953-1985 гг.), Moscow 1991, ISBN 5-7133-0385-3 , German translation: The system. A life in the center of Soviet politics , Frankfurt a. M. 1993, ISBN 3-10-000903-7 .
  • Общественная наука и политика (Social Studies and Politics), Moscow 1998
  • Повестка дня российско-американских отношений (The Agenda for Russian-American Relations), Moscow 1999.
  • Человек Системы (Humane Systems), Moscow 2002, ISBN 5-264-00851-5 .
  • Детство. Отрочество. Война: Автобиография на фоне исторических событий (Childhood. Adolescence. War: autobiography against the background of historical events), Moscow 2007.

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personal data
SURNAME Arbatow, Georgi Arkadyevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Арбатов, Георгий Аркадьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet political scientist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Kherson , Kherson Oblast
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 2010
Place of death Moscow