Leonid Jakowlewitsch Gosman

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Leonid Gosman

Leonid Jakowlevič Gosman ( Russian Леонид Яковлевич Гозман , scientific transliteration Leonid Jakovlevič Gozman ; born July 13, 1950 in Leningrad ) is a Russian opposition politician and co-chairman of the Right Cause party .

Gosman grew up in a Jewish family. In 1976 he graduated from Moscow's Lomonosov University , where he studied at the Faculty of Psychology. He then worked there as a lecturer at the chair for social psychology, where he received his doctorate in the field of political psychology. In the early 1990s, Gosman switched to politics and in 1992 became an advisor in the government of Yegor Gaidar . In 1993 he joined the liberal party " Democratic Election of Russia " and ran with it for the State Duma in the 1995 elections . From 1996 to 1998 Gosman was an advisor to the then presidential administration chief Anatoli Tschubais .

In 2000 Gosman became one of the founding members of the liberal party Union of Right Forces and has been a member of its executive committee since 2001. In 2005 he became deputy chairman of the party, and from September 2008 until its self-dissolution in November of the same year, he was acting chairman of the Union of Right Forces. In this role he replaced the previous party leader Nikita Belych .

When the new Liberal Right Cause party was founded in November 2008, Gosman was appointed as its co-chair.

literature

Gosman, Leonid: From the horrors of freedom. The Russians - a psychogram. Berlin: Rowohlt 1993. 218 pp. ISBN 3-87134-041-3

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