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Igor Vasilyevich Sledzevsky | |
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Born | 17 November 1940 (83 years) Moscow |
Citizenship | Russian |
Alma mater | Moscow State University Faculty of History (1963) |
Awards | Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Doctor of Historical Sciences |
Institutions | Institute for African Studies |
Igor Vasilievich Sledzevsky (born November 17, 1940, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian historian, specialist in the social history of Africa and the theory of civilizations. [1] Historical science of the Soviet Union|Doctor of Historical Sciences. Head of the Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies at the Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Council on African Problems at the Department of Global Problems and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Member of the editorial board of the Vostok magazine. Author of a number of works on the philosophy of history.
He was born into a military family. Father - Sledzevsky Vasily Alexandrovich, colonel of the Soviet Army, participant in the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars, mother - Sledzevskaya Tatyana Vasilievna.
In 1963 he graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov. In 1966, he completed his graduate studies at the Institute of African Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1967 he defended his thesis on the topic “Modern Hausa of Northern Nigeria” at the Institute of African Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1990 he defended his doctoral dissertation “Sociohistorical structures of West Africa. Problems of relationships between local social organisms and the historical environment” at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Since 1967 he has been working at the Institute for African Studies. Between 1992-1998, he was the Head of the Laboratory of Civilizational Research at the Institute and between 1998-2008, the Director of the Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2002 he was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.
He is married and has a son.
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