My constant desire is to establish relations between the cul- tures of France and Russia

Мое постоянное стремление — наводить мосты между культурами Франции и России

Berelowitch, Alexis (Берелович, Алексис) () and Nikulin, Alexander (Никулин, Александр) ()
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Berelowitch, Alexis (Берелович, Алексис): University Paris — Sorbonne
Nikulin, Alexander (Никулин, Александр): Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Russian Peasant Studies, 2019, vol. 4, 96-114

Abstract: In his interview, the French researcher Alexis Berelowitch considers his Russian fami- ly roots and the desire to combine French and Russian cultures in his life through differ- ent types of cooperation in the Russian and French historical-sociological projects. He first visited Russia as a teenager in a Moscow pioneer camp in the late 1950s, then he worked as a young volunteer teacher of French at the Minsk State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages in the late 1960s, and after that he chose the key topic of his research — the development of the nationalist trend among village-writers in the Soviet Union. Since perestroika Berelowitch has participated in Russian-French scientific projects of sociologists who studied the transformations of public opinion under the col- lapse of the USSR, and in Russian-French scientific projects of historians who studied the early Soviet period of the agrarian history of the 1920s — 1930s. Alexis Berelowitch made a great contribution to the development of cultural and scientific relations between France and Russia as a cultural attaché of the French Embassy in the mid-1990s and as a director of the French Scientific Center in Moscow (2002-2006). The interview pays special attention to his personal memories of such remarkable researchers of the Russian peasantry as Basile Kerblay, Moshe Levin, Viktor Danilov and Teodor Shanin.

Keywords: Peasant Studies; perestroika; Russia; USSR; France; university science; Kerblay; Levin; Danilov; Shanin (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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