Teodor Shanin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Teodor Shanin

Polish sociologist

Date of Birth: 30-Oct-1930

Place of Birth: Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania

Profession: sociologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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Teodor Shanin OBE (born 30 October, 1930) is a British sociologist who was for many years Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester.
He is credited with pioneering the study of Russian peasantry in the West, and is best known for his first book, The Awkward Class, Political Sociology of Peasantry in a Developing Society, Russia, 1910-25 (Clarendon Press, 1972).
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Shanin moved to Russia where, with funding from The Open Society Institute, Ford Foundation and others, he founded the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences in 1995.
Shanin is President of the Moscow School, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester, and an Honorary Fellow of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.His main research interests are Marxism, peasant studies, historical sociology, sociology of knowledge, informal economies, epistemology and higher education.In 2002 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for service to education in Russia.