Victor Zaslavsky

Victor Zaslavsky Lvovich (. Russo Виктор Львович Заславский transcribed Victor Zaslavsky Lvovitch; born September 26, 1937 in Leningrad, Soviet Union, † 26 November 2009 in Rome) was a Russian sociologist and since 1975 Emigrant.

Life

Victor Zaslavsky initially worked for ten years as an engineer before he went as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Leningrad. In 1975, he had political reasons the Soviet Union left .. He was a Canadian citizen. During his scientific career, he was a 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 a professor at the private Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi sociali in Rome. Zaslavsky was co-editor of the quarterly magazine TELOS.

For his study of the Katyn massacre, he was awarded the 2009 Hannah Arendt Prize of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Zaslavsky was with the Italian historian Elena Aga Rossi ( born 1940 ), married, with which he was awarded the Premio Acqui Storia 1998.

Writings (selection )

• " The snap Professor ". Life stories. Berlin: Wagenbach, 2013
• Lev Gudkov with D.: Russia: no way out of the post-communist transition. From the Ital. Rita Seuß. Berlin: Wagenbach, 2011
• Class cleansing: the Katyn massacre. From the Ital. Rita Seuß. Berlin: Wagenbach, 2007
• Elena Aga Rossi: Togliatti e Stalin. Il PCI e la politica estera staliniana negli Archivi di Mosca, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1997
• The Russian Empire under Gorbachev: its ethnic structure and its future. From the Amerikan. by Holger Fliessbach. Berlin: Wagenbach, 1991
• In the closed society balance and contradiction in the Soviet everyday life, from the American by Rosemarie Farkas. Berlin: Wagenbach, 1982