Dmitri Furman

This article is about a Russian political scientist and sociologist. For Russian writer, see Dmitri Furmanov.

Dmitri Yefimovich Furman (Russian: Дми́трий Ефи́мович Фу́рман Dmitrij Yefimovič Furman; 28 February 1943 – 22 July 2011) was a Russian political scientist, sociologist, and expert on religions. The New Left Review called him "Russia’s leading comparative scholar on the political systems of post-Soviet states".^[1]

Dmitri Furman was born in Moscow, graduated from Moscow State University (1965), and defended his PhD thesis "Religion and social conflicts in US" in 1981.

In recent years, Furman has undertaken as editor or sole author, a series of studies of the former Soviet periphery: collections on Ukraine (1997), Belarus (1998), Chechnya (1999), Azerbaijan (2001), the Baltic States (2002), a monograph on Kazakhstan (2004), and dozens of separate essays and articles. Also, continuing with his earlier specialization, he produced works on religion in post-Soviet Russia as well as a collection of his political journalism Our Last Ten Years (2001).

References

1. ^ Introduction to Dmitri Furman

External links

• Dmitri Furman at The New Times
• Dmitri Furman. Imitation Democracy: The Post-Soviet Penumbra. New Left Review

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Name	Furman, Dmitri
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Short description	Political scientist, sociologist, and expert on religions
Date of birth	28 February 1943
Place of birth	Moscow, Russia
Date of death	22 July 2011
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