Teodor Shanin

Teodor Shanin
Teodor Shanin in 2014
Born	(1930-10-30)October 30, 1930 Vilnius
Died	February 4, 2020(2020-02-04) (aged 89) Moscow
Nationality	British
Occupation	Sociologist
Known for	The Awkward Class

Teodor Shanin OBE (30 October 1930 – 4 February 2020) was a Lithuanian-born British-Russian sociologist.

He worked as a Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He was best known for his first book, The Awkward Class, Political Sociology of Peasantry in a Developing Society, Russia, 1910-25 (Clarendon Press, 1972).^[1] He founded the The Open Society Institute, Ford Foundation and the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences in 1995.^[2]

Shanin was President of the Moscow School, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester, and an Honorary Fellow of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.^[3]

In 2002 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for service to education in Russia.^[4]

1. ↑ "An exchange of peasantries". Times Higher Education (THE). 1998-03-20. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
2. ↑ "History". www.msses.ru. Archived from the original on 2018-06-17. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
3. ↑ "Teodor Shanin". www.msses.ru. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
4. ↑ Gold, Karen (2002-09-10). "Peasants' professor". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-05-30.