Teodor Shanin

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Teodor Shanin OBE
Shanin in 2014
Born	(1930-10-29)29 October 1930 Vilnius
Died	4 February 2020(2020-02-04) (aged 89) Moscow, Russia
Nationality	British
Spouse	Shulamit Ramon
Academic background
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem University of Birmingham
Thesis	Cyclical Mobility and Political Consciousness of Russian Peasants 1910–1925 (1970)
Doctoral advisor	R. E. F. Smith
Influences	Paul A. Baran Mark Bloch Alexander Chayanov C. Wright Mills Paul Sweezy
Academic work
Discipline	Sociology
Institutions	University of Sheffield University of Haifa St Antony's College, Oxford University of Manchester Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences
Notable works	The Awkward Class (1972)

Teodor Shanin OBE (20 October 1930 – 4 February 2020) was a British sociologist who was for many years Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He was credited with pioneering the study of Russian peasantry in the West, and is best known for his first book, The Awkward Class: Political Sociology of Peasantry in a Developing Society, Russia, 1910–25 (Clarendon Press, 1972).^[1] After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Shanin moved to Russia where, with funding from The Open Society Institute, Ford Foundation and others, he founded the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences in 1995.^[2] Shanin was President of the Moscow School, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester, and an Honorary Fellow of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.^[3]

His main research interests were Marxism, peasant studies, historical sociology, sociology of knowledge, informal economies, epistemology, and higher education.^[4]

In 2002 he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for service to education in Russia.^[5]