Most of all I would like to go to Shanin

Authors

  • Tatiana Zaslavskaya Author
  • Tatiana Cherkashina Novosibirsk National Research State University Publihser

Keywords:

T. I. Zaslavskaya, Teodor Shanin, Russian sociology, InterCentre, VCIOM, monitoring of public opinion, ego-documents

Abstract

Fragments of letters from Academician T. I. Zaslavskaya to sister M. I. Cheremisina about the events of 1992–1996 related to the opening and work of the Interdisciplinary Academic Center for Social and Economic Sciences (InterCentre), on the basis of which the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences was created in 1995. As co-president, T. I. Zaslavskaya participated in the organization of publishing and grant programs of the InterCentre, was the organizer of the international symposium “Where is Russia going?”, together with VCIOM initiated the sociological monitoring of economic and social changes in Russia, was the editor-in-chief of the Monitoring’s Bulletin of Information. Ego documents show the emergence and consolidation of initiatives that are significant for modern Russian sociology today.

For citation: Zaslavskaya, T. (2025). “... Most of all I would like to go to Shanin”. Fragments of letters by T. I. Zaslavskaya, 1992–1996. Russia’s Directions. Vol. 3. No. 3. P. 104–137.

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Submitted: August 21, 2025

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Author Biographies

  • Tatiana Zaslavskaya

    Tatiana Zaslavskaya (née Karpova; April 9, 1927 — August 23, 2013) was a Soviet and Russian sociologist and economist. She was at the origin of the creation of the MVSHSEN/Intercenter, the organization and holding of the Shaninka symposia: «Where is Russia going?» / «Ways of Russia», the editor-in-chief of the yearbook of this symposium, the successor of which is the magazine «Russia’s Directions».

     

    Preface, comments Tatiana Cherkashina — PhD Sociological Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Economics and Industrial Production Organization SB RAS, Head of the Department of General Sociology at the Faculty of Economics of Novosibirsk National Research State University. Address: Novosibirsk, Pirogova str., 1, office 3338.
    E-mail: touch@nsu.ru

  • Tatiana Cherkashina, Novosibirsk National Research State University

    Tatiana Cherkashina — PhD Sociological Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Economics and Industrial Production Organization SB RAS, Head of the Department of General Sociology at the Faculty of Economics of Novosibirsk National Research State University.
    Address: Novosibirsk, Pirogova str., 1, office 3338.
    E-mail: touch@nsu.ru.

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Published

2025-09-29

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 3 (2025): Russia’s Directions. The Journal of Russian Social Research and Ethnography

Section

The 30th Anniversary of Shaninka

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Copyright (c) 2025 Т. И. Заславская (Автор); Т.Ю. Черкашина (Публикатор)

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