Alexander Tarasov
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| Full name | Alexander Tarasov |
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| Born | March 8, 1958 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Post-Marxism, Existentialism |
| Main interests | Politics, Sociology, Culture |
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Alexander Nikolaevich Tarasov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Тарасо́в, born March 8, 1958 in Moscow) is a Russian Post-Marxist theoretician, sociologist and historian. Tarasov was a left-wing political dissident in the Soviet Union.
[edit] Biography
In the December 1972 - January 1973 period, together with Vasili Minorsky, he founded an underground left radical group called "The Party of New Communists" (PNK) (Russian: Партия новых коммунистов (ПНК)), and became the group's informal leader in the summer of 1973. In 1974 the PNK merged with "Left School" (Russian: Левая школа) to form "The Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union" (NKPSS) (Russian: Неокоммунистическая партия Советского Союза (НКПСС)). Tarasov was one of the NKPSS leaders and theorists, writing the party program, The Principles of Neocommunism (Russian: Принципы неокоммунизма) in 1974. He was arrested by the KGB in 1975, but was not brought to trial. Instead, Tarasov was sent to a special psychiatric hospital.[1] After his release, he headed the NKPSS until its self-dissolution in January 1985.[2]
In 1988 he founded an Independent archive (Independent archive — Independent sociological service since 1990) and in 1991 he became an employee of Centre for new sociology and study of practical politics "Phoenix" (Russian: Центр новой социологии и изучения практической политики «Феникс»). In 2004 he became co-director of "Phoenix" and, in February 2009, its director.
In the 1980s he published sociological tracts under pseudonyms in the foreign press and samizdat (publishing yourself what the Soviet printing presses were forbidden from publishing. An illegal activity in USSR.).
In 2002 he was a founding editor of the book series Zero Hour: Contemporary World Anti-Bourgeois Thought (Russian: Час "Ч" - Современная мировая антибуржуазная мысль). He followed this with two additional book series: Class Struggle (German: Klassenkampf; co-edited with Boris Yuliyevich Kagarlitsky) in 2005, and The Rose of the Revolution (Russian: роЗА РЕВОлюций) in 2006.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Erlich, Reese (11 2001). "Soviet Dissidents. Gone with the wind of change". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ Тарасов, Александр. "Возвращение на Лубянку: 1977-й". Неприкосновенный запас 2007 (2). http://magazines.russ.ru/nz/2007/2/ta16.html.
[edit] Books
- The provocation. A Version of the October 3–4, 1993 events in Moscow. — M.: Center of new sociology and a close-up on the practical politics, Феникс, 1993
- The truth about Yugoslavia. — Perm': ОПОР, 1993 (coauthor)
- The provocation. A Version of the October 3–4, 1993 events in Moscow. — Post scriptum from 1994 — M.: Center of new sociology and a close-up on the practical politics, Феникс, 1993
- Political extremism in Russia. — M.: Information-expert group Панорама, 1996 (coauthor)
- Political extremism in Russia. — M.: Institute of Experimental Sociology, 1996 (coauthor). ISBN 5-87637-043-6.
- The Left in Russia: from moderate to the extremists. — M: Institute of Experimental Sociology, 1997 (coauthor). ISBN 5-87637-006-1.
- Very timely history. A feminist like a stripper: culturological analysis. — M.: Publishing of the Academy of Art and Science of 21st century Норма, 1999. ISBN 5-85302-194-X
- Revolution is not serious. Study of theory and history of quasirevolutionary movements. — M.: Ekaterinburg: Ультра.Культура, 2005. ISBN 5-9681-0067-2.
- Country X. — M.: AST; Adaptek, 2006. ISBN 5-17-032525-8; 2nd edition: 2007, ISBN 5-17-040213-9
- Le rouge et le noir. Extrême droite et nationalisme en Russie. (The Red and the Black: The Extreme Right and Nationalism in Russia) — P.: CNRS Editions, 2007 (coauthor). ISBN 978-2-271-06505-6.
