Tatyana Zaslavskaya

Tatyana Zaslavskaya (Russian: Татьяна Ивановна Заславская) (September 9, 1927 – August 23, 2013) was a Russian economic sociologist, a theoretician of perestroika, an author and co-author of several books on economy of the Soviet Union (specializing in agriculture) and in sociology of the countryside and a large number of research papers. 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 VCIOM and also its director in the years from 1987 to 1992. In 2000 she was the Laureate of the Demidov Prize. Until today she is the honorary president of the Levada Center.

Tatyana Zaslavskaya was born in Kiev on September 9, 1927. 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 finished her post-graduate study at the Institute of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences with the degree of Kandidat in 1956 under the supervision of Professor Vladimir Venzher (Владимир Григорьевич Венжер). In 1963 she joined the Novosibirsk Institute of Economics headed by Abel Aganbegyan (Абел Аганбегян) to work in a command of young and talented scientists. In 1965 she did her Doctorate in Economics and in 1968 she was elected an Associate Member (член-корреспондент) of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

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