11 Facts About Tatyana Zaslavskaya

Tatyana Ivanovna Zaslavskaya was a Russian economic sociologist and a theoretician of perestroika.

Tatyana Zaslavskaya was the prime author of the Novosibirsk Report and several books on the economy of the Soviet Union and in sociology of the countryside.

Tatyana Zaslavskaya was a member of the Consulting Committee to the President of Russia from 1991 to 1992 and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Tatyana Zaslavskaya was born in Kyiv in 1927 and brought up in Moscow.

Tatyana Zaslavskaya studied at the Physics Department of Moscow State University for three years, and then graduated from the Economics Department of the university in 1950.

Tatyana Zaslavskaya finished her post-graduate study at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union with the degree of Kandidat in 1956 under the supervision of Professor Vladimir Venzher.

The remoteness and relative scientific freedom of the young department of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union at Novosibirsk allowed Tatyana Zaslavskaya to do her research in sociology of the agricultural sector by studying the Siberian countryside, Altai Krai in particular.

Tatyana Zaslavskaya was the author of a number of works in Russian which deal with economics and social conditions in Soviet agriculture although some of her work was suppressed by Soviet censors.

In 1988 Tatyana Zaslavskaya came back to Moscow for the formation of the Russian Public Opinion Research Center, which she was the director of until 1992.

Tatyana Zaslavskaya died in 2013 having left her role as a member of parliament twenty years before to teach and write.

Tatyana Zaslavskaya was survived by her husband Mikhail and her daughter Oksana.