Dmitri Furman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dmitri Furman

Political scientist, sociologist, and expert on religions

Date of Birth: 28-Feb-1943

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 22-Jul-2011

Profession: historian, political scientist, university teacher, sociologist, social philosopher

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Dmitri Yefimovich Furman (Russian: ???´???? ???´????? ??´???? Dmitrij Yefimovic 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".
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 later years, Furman undertook 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).