23 Facts About Alexander Tarasov

Alexander Nikolaevich Tarasov is a Soviet and Russian left-wing sociologist, political scientist, culturologist, publicist, writer, and philosopher.

Since in the 21st century the term Post-Marxism has been appropriated by Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and their followers, Alexander Tarasov stopped referring to himself as a Post-Marxist.

Alexander Tarasov has become one of the NCPSU leaders and theorists, writing the party program, The Principles of Neo-communism in 1974.

Alexander Tarasov has been suffering from since his release, leaving him virtually disabled.

In 1988, two State Psychiatric Commissions examined Alexander Tarasov and found him completely psychologically healthy.

Alexander Tarasov held many different jobs: he worked as a draughtsman; laboratory assistant in a design institute; graveyard warden at Vagankovo Cemetery ; machinist; boiler technician; librarian; editor; feldsher; gas boiler operator; bookkeeper at the Central Warehouse of Mikoyan Meat Processing Plant Corp.

Alexander Tarasov got a degree in economics from All-Russian State Distance Learning Institute of Finance and Economics and a degree in history.

In 1984 Alexander Tarasov started publishing his works in the USSR and in foreign press.

Alexander Tarasov has penned more than 1100 publications in sociology ; politology ; history ; culturology ; economics.

Alexander Tarasov is a literary and movie critic.

Alexander Tarasov has been the first to study and describe Nazi-skinhead subculture in Russia.

Alexander Tarasov is the author of the first profound research on the influence of far-right ideas and organizations on the subculture of football fans in Russia.

On November 4,1995, Alexander Tarasov was the victim of an unprovoked assault near his house: after calling him by name, unknown attackers beat him so severely that he lost consciousness.

Alexander Tarasov is known among Russian anarchists as a consistent critic, primarily of the practice of anarchism as fruitless and unpromising, and, to some extent, of its theory as outdated and unscientific.

Alexander Tarasov's criticism has caused open animosity towards him among anarchists.

Alexander Tarasov criticized the protests from the left, considering them to be the movement of petit bourgeoisie and "consumers' rebellion" alien to the goals and objectives of left-wing forces in Russia and irrelevant to the revolutionary struggle against capitalism.

Between 2002 and 2012 Alexander Tarasov actively participated in publication of the Scepsis journal, contributing to its online version.

Alexander Tarasov was responsible for some of the publications on the journal's website, collaborated with authors and translators as an editor and a curator.

Alexander Tarasov left the Scepsis due to ideological and political differences with the majority of its editorial board members, most of whom were the students and followers of Yuri Semenov.

Alexander Tarasov's departure was preceded by his public polemics with Semenov.

Alexander Tarasov is an accomplished prose and poetry writer.

Alexander Tarasov is a translator from English and Spanish.

Since 2014 Alexander Tarasov's profile has been included in annual editions of Marquis Who's Who in the World.