Alexander Tarasov is a sociologist, political scientist. Biography

Tarasov Alexander Nikolaevich is a Russian political scientist, sociologist and culturologist. He is a famous writer and publicist, an excellent contemporary philosopher. Tarasov considers himself a post-Marxist.

early years

Alexander Tarasov was born in Moscow on the eighth of March, the fifty-eighth year. He graduated from school and received two higher education - economic and historical. But during perestroika he was re-qualified as a political scientist and sociologist in order to keep pace with the times.

Career and work

After graduation, Tarasov managed to change many professions. He worked as a draftsman, watchman, laboratory assistant, locksmith, machinist and librarian. I managed to work as editor in several publications. Tried myself as a boiler operator and accountant. In the Hermitage he worked as an illuminator.

Was in the post of research associate in the Center attached to the Russian Academy of Sciences, he taught at one of the universities. Worked as a consultant in the Ministry of Science of the Russian Federation, political observer and expert. In the eighty-eighth year Tarasov founded the Independent Archive. Beginning in the ninety-first year, Alexander Nikolayevich worked in the Center for Sociology and New Politics "Phoenix". In 2004, he was transferred to the position of social director. And since 2009 he was appointed the head of the "Phoenix".

Tarasov as a politician

In 1972, Alexander Tarasov became one of the creators of the underground left-wing group "The Party of New Communists", which was shortly called the PNA. Was appointed her unofficial leader. After a while the PNA merged with another similar group called "Left School". And in the seventy-fourth received a new name "Non-Communist Party of the USSR". Briefly - NCSPC.

Tarasov was one of its leaders. Alexander Nikolaevich in the party was engaged in theory, wrote a policy document "Principles of neo-communism."

Arrest of Tarasov

In the seventy-fifth year Tarasov Alexander Nikolaevich was arrested by the KGB. At first he was in a pre-trial detention cell, then spent a year in a psychiatric hospital. Such was the fate of many people who disagreed with something about the official policy of the party. Most of them went through compulsory treatment in psychiatric clinics. Then Tarasova was released, because the case never came to court. After that, he took an active part in the restoration of the NCSPS and was the leader of the party until the eighty-ninth year. Then the organization was self-disbanded.

Tarasov in a psychiatric hospital

In the psychiatric hospital Tarasov was treated very cruelly. There was torture. He was beaten, used large doses of neuroleptics, ECT. More than once Tarasov fell into insulin coma. After staying in a psychiatric hospital, Alexander Nikolayevich's health was severely undermined.

He had severe somatic diseases. The work of the pancreas, liver was disrupted, spondylitis and hypertension appeared. In fact, Tarasov became disabled. In the eighty-eighth year, he was examined by two state medical commissions, who recognized psychologically as an absolutely healthy person.

Tarasov is the author of many printed publications

Since the eighty-fourth year, Alexander Tarasov, whose biography is closely connected with political activity, began to be published in Samizdat and the foreign press. Since the eighty-eighth year of his article began to appear in independent publications. Since the eighty-fourth year, Tarasov was printed only under pseudonyms, but already with a ninety person signed under his own name.

Modern Russian sociologists have written many articles. The author of more than a thousand of them is Tarasov. Basically, he wrote about the problems of youth, often touched on the topic of education and conflictology. A lot of work was on political science (about mass movements, radicalism, etc.), history, culture and economics. Alexander Tarasov is a famous critic in cinema and literature.

He is the first one to study the subculture of Russian Nazi skinheads. Since 1992, Alexander Nikolaevich has become known as a poet and prose writer. In the ninety-third year Tarasov was the editor of the publication "The House of Unions", which was published on the basis of the newspaper "Solidarity". But they printed only five numbers. Then the "House of Unions" was covered up for excessive radicalism.

From the ninety-seventh year he began to translate texts from Spanish and English. Tarasov's writings have been published in many foreign countries. He is included in the list of "The best Russian political scientists of the twentieth century".

In 2002, Alexander Nikolayevich took an active part in the foundation, compilation and scientific editing of the "Hour Ch". Modern anti-bourgeois thought. " In 2005 and 2006 he worked in other publications. In all the book series, mainly "left" foreign political literature was published.

Alexander Tarasov is the author of the first scientific serious research, which he conducted in 2009-2010. It considered the influence of ultra-right ideas and companies on the subculture of football fans.

Assault on Tarasova

In early November, ninety-fifth year, Tarasov was attacked near his house. Unknown criminals hailed him by name, then brutally beaten. Tarasov defended himself, but he could not stand against several strikers at once. He passed out and was taken to the hospital.

As a result, law enforcement agencies started a criminal case. The search for those responsible for the beating began. It was found that Tarasov only lost his passport, and, strangely enough, the attackers did not touch the expensive tape recorder, a large sum of money and a bottle of elite vermouth. The perpetrators of the attack were never found.

In 2008, neo-Nazis included Tarasov in the list of enemies, which, in their opinion, should be destroyed physically. His name as a result began to "flaunt" on right-wing radical sites.

Attitude to the rallies

The rallies of 2011 and 2012, Tarasov criticized. He called them "consumer riots" and speeches by the petty bourgeoisie. He described these rallies as hostile to the goals of the "Lefts" and noted that they had nothing to do with the struggle against capitalism.