The Most Famous
POLITICAL SCIENTISTS from Russia
This page contains a list of the greatest Russian Political Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 46 Political Scientists, 3 of which were born in Russia. This makes Russia the birth place of the 4th most number of Political Scientists behind Germany, and France.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Russian Political Scientists of all time. This list of famous Russian Political Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Aleksandr Dugin (b. 1962)
With an HPI of 68.28, Aleksandr Dugin is the most famous Russian Political Scientist. His biography has been translated into 55 different languages on wikipedia.
Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin (Russian: Александр Гельевич Дугин; born 7 January 1962) is a Russian far-right political philosopher and the leading theorist of Russian neo-Eurasianism. Born into a military intelligence family, Dugin was an anti-communist dissident during the 1980s and joined the ultranationalist and antisemitic Pamyat organization. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Dugin co-founded the National Bolshevik Party, which espoused National Bolshevism, with Eduard Limonov in 1993 before leaving in 1998. In 1997, he published Foundations of Geopolitics, in which he outlined his views and called for Russia to rebuild its influence through alliances and conquest in order to challenge the rival Atlanticist empire led by the United States. Dugin founded the Eurasia Party in 2002, and he has since further developed his ideology in books including The Fourth Political Theory (2009). His views have been characterized as fascist or neo-fascist, although he explicitly rejects fascism (along with liberal democracy and Marxism). Dugin advocates a "conservative revolution" against Enlightenment ideas in Russia, and has drawn on the writings of René Guénon, Julius Evola, Carl Schmitt, and Martin Heidegger. Dugin was an early advisor to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and later to Chairmen of the State Duma Gennadiy Seleznyov and Sergey Naryshkin. He served as head of the Department of Sociology of International Relations at Moscow State University from 2009 to 2014, when he lost his post due to backlash over comments regarding the 2014 Odesa clashes. Dugin briefly served as chief editor of the pro-Kremlin Russian Orthodox channel Tsargrad TV when it launched in 2015. In 2019, Dugin was appointed as a senior fellow at Fudan University in China, and since 2023 he has served as the director of the Ivan Ilyin Higher School of Politics at the Russian State University for the Humanities. Dugin is a strong supporter of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Although he has no official ties to the Kremlin, he is often referred to in foreign media as "Putin's brain"; others say that his influence is exaggerated. Dugin vocally supported the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, and since 2022 has supported its full invasion of Ukraine as part of a holy war against "absolute Evil, embodied in Western civilisation, its liberal-totalitarian hegemony and in Ukrainian Nazism". Dugin's daughter, Darya, was assassinated in car bombing in 2022. The assassination is widely believed to have been conducted by Ukraine, though the exact relation of the assassins to the Ukrainian government is undetermined.
2. Marfa Boretskaya (1450 - 1503)
With an HPI of 57.50, Marfa Boretskaya is the 2nd most famous Russian Political Scientist. Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
Marfa Boretskaya, also known as Martha the Mayoress (Russian: Марфа Посадница - Marfa Posadnitsa), was the wife of Isaac Boretsky, Novgorod's posadnik in 1438–1439 and again in 1453. According to legend and historical tradition, she led the republic's struggle against Muscovy between her husband's death and the city's eventual annexation by Ivan III of Russia in 1478.
3. Alena V. Ledeneva (b. 1964)
With an HPI of 44.24, Alena V. Ledeneva is the 3rd most famous Russian Political Scientist. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Alena Valeryevna Ledeneva (Russian: Алёна Валерьевна Леденёва; born May 1964) is a Russian academic known for her studies of corruption and informal practices in Russia, particularly blat. She is currently Professor of Politics and Society at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London (UCL).
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Russian political scientists born between 1450 and 1964. Of these 3, 2 (66.67%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Russian political scientists include Aleksandr Dugin, and Alena V. Ledeneva. The most famous deceased Russian political scientists include Marfa Boretskaya. As of April 2024, 2 new Russian political scientists have been added to Pantheon including Marfa Boretskaya, and Alena V. Ledeneva.
