Victor Zaslavsky
Victor Lvovich Zaslavsky ( Russian Виктор Львович Заславский . Transcribed Viktor Lvovich Saslavsky ; born September 26, 1937 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ; † November 26, 2009 in Rome ) was a Soviet sociologist and an emigrant since 1975.
Life
Victor Zaslavsky initially worked as an engineer for ten years before going to Leningrad University as a lecturer in sociology . In 1975 he had to leave the Soviet Union for political reasons . He became a Canadian citizen. In his academic career he was visiting professor at various universities: Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's , Canada , University of Florence , University of Venice , University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University , and he became professor at the private Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali in Rome. Zaslavsky was co-editor of the quarterly TELOS .
In 2009 he received the Hannah Arendt Prize from the Heinrich Böll Foundation for his study of the Katyn massacre .
Zaslavsky was married to the Italian historian Elena Aga Rossi (* 1940), with whom he received the Premio Acqui Storia in 1998 .
Fonts (selection)
- "The explosives professor". Life stories . Wagenbach, Berlin 2013
- with Lev D. Gudkov : Russia: No way out of the post-communist transition . From the Ital. by Rita Seuss. Wagenbach, Berlin 2011
- Class Purge: The Katyn Massacre . From the Ital. by Rita Seuss. Wagenbach, Berlin 2007
- with Elena Aga Rossi: Togliatti e Stalin. Il PCI e la politica estera staliniana negli archivi di Mosca . Il Mulino, Bologna 1997
- The Russian Empire under Gorbachev: its ethnic structure and its future . From the American. by Holger Fliessbach. Wagenbach, Berlin 1991
- In a closed society, balance and contradiction in everyday Soviet life . From the American by Rosemarie Farkas. Wagenbach, Berlin 1982
Web links
- Literature by and about Victor Zaslavsky in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Victor Zaslavsky in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Victor Zaslavsky at perlentaucher.de
- Andrea Camaiora: Addio a Victor Zaslavsky, un eccezionale anticomunista ( Memento from May 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) , at ragionpolitica, November 28, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hannah Arendt Prize 2008 , from Heinrich Böll Foundation
- ^ Victor Zaslavsky , Stanford University
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zaslavsky, Victor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zaslavsky, Victor Lvovich (full name); Saslavski, Viktor Lvowitsch; Заславский, Виктор Львович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leningrad , Soviet Union |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 2009 |
| Place of death | Rome |