Alexander Tarasov
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n Post-Marxist
theoretician, sociologist
and historian
. Tarasov was a left-wing political dissident in the Soviet Union
.
" (NKPSS) . Tarasov was one of the NKPSS leaders and theorists, writing the party program, The Principles of Neocommunism in 1974. He was arrested by the KGB in 1975, but was not brought to trial. Instead, Tarasov was sent to a special psychiatric hospital. After his release, he headed the NKPSS until its self-dissolution in January 1985.
In 1988 he founded an Independent archive (Independent archive — Independent sociological service since 1990) and in 1991 he became an employee of Centre for new sociology and study of practical politics "Phoenix" . In 2004 he became co-director of "Phoenix" and, in February 2009, its director.
In the 1980s he published sociological tracts under pseudonyms in the foreign press and samizdat
(publishing yourself what the Soviet printing presses were forbidden from publishing. An illegal activity in USSR.).
In 2002 he was a founding editor of the book series Zero Hour: Contemporary World Anti-Bourgeois Thought . He followed this with two additional book series: Class Struggle ' onMouseout='HidePop("750")' href="/topics/Boris_Yuliyevich_Kagarlitsky">Boris Yuliyevich Kagarlitsky
) in 2005, and The Rose of the Revolution in 2006.
Moscow
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Russia
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n Post-Marxist
Post-Marxism
Post-Marxism has two related, but different uses: the socio-economic circumstances of Eastern Europe, especially in the ex-soviet republics after the Soviet Union's end; and the extrapolations of the philosophers and social theorists basing their postulations upon Karl Marx's writings and Marxism...
theoretician, sociologist
Sociology
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and historian
History
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. Tarasov was a left-wing political dissident in the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
.
Biography
In the December 1972 - January 1973 period, together with Vasili Minorsky, he founded an underground left radical group called "The Party of New Communists" (PNK) , and became the group's informal leader in the summer of 1973. In 1974 the PNK merged with "Left School" to form "The Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet UnionNeo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union was a left-wing dissident political party founded in the Soviet Union in 1974. The party formed from a merger of Vasili Minorsky and Alexander Tarasov's Party of New Communists and the Left School...
" (NKPSS) . Tarasov was one of the NKPSS leaders and theorists, writing the party program, The Principles of Neocommunism in 1974. He was arrested by the KGB in 1975, but was not brought to trial. Instead, Tarasov was sent to a special psychiatric hospital. After his release, he headed the NKPSS until its self-dissolution in January 1985.
In 1988 he founded an Independent archive (Independent archive — Independent sociological service since 1990) and in 1991 he became an employee of Centre for new sociology and study of practical politics "Phoenix" . In 2004 he became co-director of "Phoenix" and, in February 2009, its director.
In the 1980s he published sociological tracts under pseudonyms in the foreign press and samizdat
Samizdat
Samizdat was a key form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader...
(publishing yourself what the Soviet printing presses were forbidden from publishing. An illegal activity in USSR.).
In 2002 he was a founding editor of the book series Zero Hour: Contemporary World Anti-Bourgeois Thought . He followed this with two additional book series: Class Struggle ' onMouseout='HidePop("750")' href="/topics/Boris_Yuliyevich_Kagarlitsky">Boris Yuliyevich Kagarlitsky
Boris Yuliyevich Kagarlitsky
Boris Yulyevich Kagarlitsky is a Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist who has been a political dissident in the Soviet Union and in post-Soviet Russia...
) in 2005, and The Rose of the Revolution in 2006.
Books
- The provocation. A Version of the October 3–4, 1993 events in Moscow. — M.: Center of new sociology and a close-up on the practical politics, Феникс, 1993
- The truth about Yugoslavia. — Perm': ОПОР, 1993 (coauthor)
- The provocation. A Version of the October 3–4, 1993 events in Moscow. — Post scriptum from 1994 — M.: Center of new sociology and a close-up on the practical politics, Феникс, 1993
- Political extremism in Russia. — M.: Information-expert group Панорама, 1996 (coauthor)
- Political extremism in Russia. — M.: Institute of Experimental Sociology, 1996 (coauthor). ISBN 5-87637-043-6.
- The Left in Russia: from moderate to the extremists. — M: Institute of Experimental Sociology, 1997 (coauthor). ISBN 5-87637-006-1.
- Very timely history. A feminist like a stripper: culturological analysis. — M.: Publishing of the Academy of Art and Science of 21st century Норма, 1999. ISBN 5-85302-194-X
- Revolution is not serious. Study of theory and history of quasirevolutionary movements. — M.: Ekaterinburg: Ультра.Культура, 2005. ISBN 5-9681-0067-2.
- Country X. — M.: AST; Adaptek, 2006. ISBN 5-17-032525-8; 2nd edition: 2007, ISBN 5-17-040213-9
- Le rouge et le noir. Extrême droite et nationalisme en Russie. (The Red and the Black: The Extreme Right and Nationalism in Russia) — P.: CNRS Editions, 2007 (coauthor). ISBN 978-2-271-06505-6.