Alexander Zinoviev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alexander Zinoviev

Russian writer

Date of Birth: 29-Oct-1922

Place of Birth: Kostroma Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 10-May-2006

Profession: writer, university teacher, sociologist, caricaturist, philosopher, satirist, logician, opinion journalist

Nationality: Russia, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Alexander Zinoviev

  • Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev (Russian: ??????´??? ??????´??????? ????´????, October 29, 1922, Pakhtino Village, Chukhloma Uyezd, Kostroma Governorate – May 10, 2006, Moscow) was a Russian philosopher, writer, sociologist, and journalist. Coming from a poor peasant family, a participant in World War II, Alexander Zinoviev in the 1950s and 1960s was one of the symbols of the rebirth of philosophical thought in the Soviet Union.
  • After the publication in the West of the screening book "Yawning Heights", which brought Zinoviev world fame, in 1978 he was expelled from the country and deprived of Soviet citizenship.
  • He returned to Russia in 1999. The creative heritage of Zinoviev includes about 40 books, covers a number of areas of knowledge: sociology, social philosophy, mathematical logic, ethics, political thought.
  • Most of his work is difficult to attribute to any direction, put in any framework, including academic.
  • Having gained fame in the 1960s as a researcher of non-classical logic, in exile, Zinoviev was forced to become a professional writer, considering himself primarily a sociologist.
  • Works in the original genre of "sociological novel" brought international recognition to Zinoviev.
  • Often he is characterized as an independent Russian thinker, one of the largest, most original and controversial figures of Russian social thought of the second half of the 20th century. Anti-Stalinist in his youth, Zinoviev throughout his life held an active civil position, subjecting his works to sharp criticism at first the Soviet system, then the Russian and the Western, and at the end of life the processes of globalization.
  • Zinoviev's worldview was distinguished by tragedy and pessimism.
  • In the West, as in Russia, his non-conformist views were harshly criticized.

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