Victor Lvovich Zaslavsky (Russian: Виктор Львович Заславский; 26 September 1937 - 26 November 2009) was a professor of political sociology who taught at various institutions, such as LUISS (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli), the Leningrad State University, the Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Canada, the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, and elsewhere, during a long academic career.[1] He developed trenchant analyses of political and social aspects of the Soviet Union, prior to and following its collapse.[2]

Victor Zaslavsky
Born
Victor Lvovich Zaslavsky

(1937-09-26)26 September 1937
Died26 November 2009(2009-11-26) (aged 72)
Rome, Italy
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)Professor of political sociology, theorist

Born in Leningrad, Zaslavsky was a naturalized citizen of Canada. He was a member of the board of the political journal Telos for several decades. His major work prior to his death, about the Katyn massacre, was Class Cleansing: The Massacre at Katyn,[3] which received the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought from the Heinrich Boell Foundation. Zaslavsky's articles published in journals throughout the later years of the 20th century gained him a following in the United States and across continental Europe.

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References

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  1. ^ "Zaslavsky_bio".
  2. ^ Adler, Judith (25 May 2022). "Russian Regress: Reading Victor Zaslavsky in a Time of War". Society. doi:10.1007/s12115-022-00717-9. ISSN 1936-4725.
  3. ^ "Telos Press".