page_title: Teodor Shanin
hierarchical_section_title: Teodor Shanin
caption_attribution_description: English: The image represents Teodor Shanin, OBE, sociologist, founder of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences
context_page_description: Teodor Shanin, OBE was a British sociologist who was for many years Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He was credited with pioneering the study of Russian peasantry in the West, and is best known for his first book, The Awkward Class, Political Sociology of Peasantry in a Developing Society, Russia, 1910-25. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Shanin moved to Russia where, with funding from The Open Society Institute, Ford Foundation and others, he founded the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences in 1995. Shanin was President of the Moscow School, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester, and an Honorary Fellow of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
  His main research interests were Marxism, peasant studies, historical sociology, sociology of knowledge, informal economies, epistemology and higher education.
  In 2002 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire for service to education in Russia.
context_section_description: Teodor Shanin, OBE (30 October 1930 – 4 February 2020) was a British sociologist who was for many years Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He was credited with pioneering the study of Russian peasantry in the West, and is best known for his first book, The Awkward Class, Political Sociology of Peasantry in a Developing Society, Russia, 1910-25  (Clarendon Press, 1972). After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Shanin moved to Russia where, with funding from The Open Society Institute, Ford Foundation and others, he founded the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences in 1995. Shanin was President of the Moscow School, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester,  and an Honorary Fellow of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
  His main research interests were Marxism, peasant studies, historical sociology, sociology of knowledge, informal economies, epistemology and higher education. 
  In 2002 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for service to education in Russia.
caption: Shanin in 2014
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