Alexander Gordon (historian)
Alexander V. Gordon | |
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Gordon, 2022 | |
| Born | 1 October 1937 |
| Education | B.A., Saint Petersburg State University, 1959;
Ph.D., Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1968; Doctor of Sciences Doktor nauk (second doctorate), Institute of Asian and African Countries, Moscow State University, 1991 |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University, 1959 |
| Occupations | Head of Asian and African Countries Division |
| Employer(s) | Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow |
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Alexander V. Gordon (Russian: Гордон, Александр Владимирович) is a Russian historian, historiographer, socio-anthropologist, and culturologist. He is the author of important works on European history, modern civilization, peasant studies, historiography. His major areas of research are the history and historiography of French revolution, mass-movements in traditional and modern cultures, and peasant culture. Through his work at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, he has considerably affected the exchange of information between Western and Russian academies and societies. He also authored several popular books on history and culture.