Tatyana Zaslavskaya
Russian sociologist and economist
Who was Tatyana Zaslavskaya?
Tatyana Ivanovna Zaslavskaya (Russian: Татьяна Ивановна Заславская; April 9, 1927 – August 23, 2013) was a Russian economic sociologist and a theoretician of perestroika. Tatyana Zaslavskaya was born in Kyiv in 1927 and brought up in Moscow. She studied at the Physics Department of Moscow State University for three years, and then graduated from the Economics Department of the university in 1950. She was the prime author of the Novosibirsk Report and several books on the economy of the Soviet Union (specializing in agriculture) and in sociology of the countryside. She was a member of the Consulting Committee to the President of Russia from 1991 to 1992 and also a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Zaslavskaya was the founder of RPORC and also its director in the years from 1987 to 1992.
Historical significance
In 2000 she was the Laureate of the Demidov Prize and the honorary president of the Levada Center. She finished her post-graduate study at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union with the degree of Kandidat in 1956 under the supervision of Professor Vladimir Venzher (Владимир Григорьевич Венжер).