Maksim Kovalevsky
Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevsky (1851 - 1916) was a sociologist and professor of Legal History at the University of St Petersburg.
He studied at the University of Kharkiv under Dmitri Kachanovsky.
He was at the University of Moscow from 1878 to 1887, where he studied legal institutions of Caucasian highlanders. Later he settled abroad, becoming friends with Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.
In 1906 he founded the Progressist Party. He was a member of the State Duma up to 1907, when he was elected to the State Council by the academy of sciences and universities. In 1912 he was nominated for a Nobel peace prize.
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Among his contributions to Russian jurisprudence and social science was a new historical method which combined traditional descriptive comparative analysis with sociological/ethnographic methods.
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[edit] External links
- M.M. Kovalevsky, Obituary, 1 Russian Review 259-268 (available at [1])
- Modern Customs and Ancient Laws of Russia. Union, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 2000. ISBN 978-1584770176
- Russian Political Institutions: the Growth and Development of These Institutions from the Beginnings of Russian History to the Present Time. University of Chicago Press (1902).
- Alexander F. Tsvirkun History and Legal and political scientist. Kharkiv 2007
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