Grigory Yudin
{{Short description|Russian sociologist}}
{{family name hatnote|Borisovich|Yudin|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Grigory Yudin
| image = Григорий Юдин в Ельцин-центре в 2019 году.jpg
| caption = Yudin in 2019
| native_name = {{nobold|Григорий Юдин}}
| birth_name = Grigory Borisovich Yudin
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1983|8|10}}
| birth_place = Fryazino, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
| nationality = Russian
| education = Higher School of Economics
University of Manchester
The New School
| alma_mater = Higher School of Economics
| occupation = Sociologist, columnist
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| module =
| known_for = Specialist in the theory of democracy and economic anthropology
| fields = Sociology, political science, philosophy
| workplaces = Higher School of Economics
Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences
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Grigory Borisovich Yudin, also known as Greg Yudin (born 1983), is a Russian political scientist and sociologist. Yudin is an expert in public opinion and polling in Russia. He is columnist for the newspaper Vedomosti and the online magazine Republic,{{cite web | title=Greg Yudin | website=School of Advanced Studies | url=https://sas.utmn.ru/en/greg-yudin-en/ | access-date=27 February 2022 }} as well as the website Proekt.{{cite web | title=Greg Yudin | website=uhnwidata | url=https://www.uhnwidata.com/den-of-rich/greg-yudin | access-date=27 February 2022 | archive-date=28 February 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220228095254/https://www.uhnwidata.com/den-of-rich/greg-yudin | url-status=dead }} He has also written for Open Democracy.{{cite web | title=Greg Yudin | website=Open Democracy | url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/grigory-yudin/ | access-date=27 February 2022 }}
Life
Yudin gained his BA and MA in sociology at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow. In 2012, he received a PhD in anthropology from the University of Manchester. He is a Senior Researcher in the Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology at the Higher School of Economics, and heads Russia's first MA program in political philosophy at the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences.
In early 2022, Yudin warned of a lack of political awareness amongst the Russian population about the Russo-Ukrainian crisis.{{cite web | author=Eva Hartog | title=Putin gambles Russia's economy over Ukraine | website=Politico | date=29 January 2022 | url=https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-gamble-russia-economy-ukraine/ | access-date=27 February 2022}} On 22 February 2022, Yudin predicted that Putin was "about to start the most senseless war in history".{{cite web | author=Greg Yudin | title=Putin is about to start the most senseless war in history | website=Open Democracy | date=22 February 2022 | url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/russia-ukraine-most-senseless-war-nato-history/ | access-date=27 February 2022 }} After participating in protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, he was beaten unconscious by police and needed treatment at the Sklifosovsky Institute in central Moscow.{{cite news | title=Russian socialists on Ukraine anti-war protests and turning resistance into class war | date=26 February 2022 | url=https://socialistworker.co.uk/international/russian-socialists-on-ukraine-anti-war-protests-and-turning-resistance-into-class-war/ | access-date=27 February 2022 }}
In 2023-2024 Yudin is visiting research scholar at the University Center for Human Values at the University of Princeton. He is also studying at The New School for Social Research in New York to obtain a PhD in politics.{{cite web | url=https://uchv.princeton.edu/people/greg-yudin | title=Greg Yudin | publisher=University of Princeton | accessdate=2024-03-31}}
In 2024, Yudin joined other Russian academics living abroad, including Evgeny Roshchin and Artemy Magun, in creating the Institute for Global Reconstitution, a group proposing a reformed constitution for Russia in the event that the Putin regime collapses. The proposal, for a Union of Republics of Russia, prompted debate among the Russian opposition on the future for a post-Putin Russia.[https://meduza.io/en/slides/welcome-to-the-union-of-republics-of-russia Welcome to the Union of Republics of Russia: A group of Russian researchers have proposed a new constitution for the post-Putin era. Meduza breaks down its key points.], Meduza (July 3, 2024).
Works
- (with Ivan Pavlyutkin) {{cite journal | title=Recording the ambiguity: The moral economy of debt books in a Russian small town | journal=Cultural Studies | volume=29 | issue=5–6 | year=2015 | pages=807–826 | doi=10.1080/09502386.2015.1017145 | s2cid=154335216 }}
- {{cite journal | title=Sociology as a naïve science: Alfred Schütz and the phenomenological theory of attitudes | journal=Human Studies | volume=39 | issue=4 | year=2016 | pages=547–568 | doi=10.1007/s10746-016-9401-9 | s2cid=146951744 | last1=Yudin | first1=Greg }}
- {{cite journal | title=Governing Through Polls: Politics of Representation and Presidential Support in Putin's Russia | journal=Javnost / The Public | volume=27 | issue=1 | year=2020 | pages=1–15 }}
- {{cite web | title=Why is Putin's Russia threatening Ukraine? | website=Open Democracy | date=19 January 2022 | url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/why-is-putins-russia-threatening-ukraine/?source=in-article-related-story }}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1u33nYCNUI Greg Yudin: From Democracy to Plebiscites. Why Voting Dominates our Democratic Imagination]
- {{cite web | url=https://lefteast.org/scratch-a-russian-liberal-and-youll-find-an-educated-conservative-an-interview-with-sociologist-greg-yudin/ | title='Scratch a Russian liberal and you'll find an educated conservative': an interview with sociologist Greg Yudin | translator=Kristina Mayman | date=23 March 2017}}
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Category:Russian political scientists
Category:Alumni of the University of Manchester
Category:Higher School of Economics alumni