Theodor Shanin

Teodor Shanin (Vilnius, October 30, 1930-Moscow, February 4, 2020) was a British sociologist of Polish origin.

Academic activity

Professor at the University of Manchester, President of the Moscow School of Economic and Social Sciences, affectionately called Shaninka. Member of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. His fields of interest were historical sociology, the sociology of knowledge, the social economy, the rural environment and the peasantry.

«This sociologist has spent many years traveling the world and studying it... unarmed by surveys. Their teams stay in the regions where they study, live and work like any neighbor's son and, little by little, bring to the surface the true factors that determine the local economy and, therefore, its connections, if they exist, with other economies. ».

Most Important Jobs

• "The Awkward class" (in Spanish, The Uneasy Class - Political Sociology of the Peasant in a Developing Society -Russia 1910-1925)
• "Peasants and Peasants Societies" (in Spanish Campesinos and Sociedades Campesinas).
• "The Rules of the Game: Models in Contemporary Scholary Thought."
• "Russia 1905-1907: Revolution as a Moment of Truth."
• Defining Peasants.
• "Russia as a Developing Society."
• "Reportal Economies: Russia and the World".
• "Reflexive Peasant Studies."