Lev Gudkov, Russian sociologist, professor and Director of the Levada Center, an independent, non-governmental polling and sociological research organization based in Moscow, will visit MIIS as part of the Visiting Experts program of the Graduate Initiative of Russian Studies. Mr. Gudkov will present three lectures this week as part of a series. The first of these lectures, titled, “Historical Consciousness of Russian Society,” will take place on Tuesday, November 15, at 10:00AM-11:50AM in the VC room at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), and will be given in Russian. The second is titled, “How the Russians Perceive the World and Why,” and will take place on Wednesday, November 16, at 12:15PM-2:00PM in the VC room at CNS. This lecture will be given in Russian, with interpretation into English available, and will be open to the public. The third, titled, “Russian Political Crisis and Anti-Western Mobilization of 2012-2016,” will take place on Thursday, November 17, at 10:00AM-11:50AM in MG-100, and will be given in Russian.
Prior to his Directorship at the Levada Center, a position which he has held since 2006, Mr. Gudkov was the head of the Levada Center’s Department of Sociopolitical Research. He has also taught in the Department of Sociology at the National Research University–Higher School of Economics since 2009. He was the leading research associate in the Russian Public Opinion Research Center from 1988 to 1991, was head of the center’s Department of Theory, and later head of the Department of Sociopolitical Research. In addition to research, Gudkov is the Editor in chief of the Russian Public Opinion Herald, a joint publication of Levada Center and the Interdisciplinary Academic Center. He has authored more than 70 books and articles on the problems of post-Communist society, transition, sociology of culture, and literature.