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Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry | “The Five Worlds of Teodor Shanin”
Victor Vakhshtayn
Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Montenegro); Senior Research Fellow, Center for Russian Studies, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
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Combining eyewitness testimony with historical and sociological analysis, this presentation by the Russian-Israeli sociologist Victor Vakhshtayn seeks to paint a vivid portrait of Teodor Shanin (1930-2020), distinguished sociologist and founding father of the Moscow School for Social and Economic Studies (“Shaninka”). Vakhshtayn first met Teodor Shanin in 2000, at the time still an undergraduate student. Visiting friends in Moscow, Vakhshtayn entered the library where an elderly man in a sweatshirt approached him and inquired what exactly he was reading. That brief conversation changed the course of Vakhshtayn’s life. He moved to Moscow, entered the master’s program at Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, and years later became a dean there.
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Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies