Dmitri Furman

Who was Dmitri Furman?

Dmitri Yefimovich Furman was a Russian political scientist, sociologist, and expert on religions. The New Left Review called him "Russia’s leading comparative scholar on the political systems of post-Soviet states".

Dmitri Furman was born in Moscow, graduated from Moscow State University, and defended his PhD thesis "Religion and social conflicts in US" in 1981.

In recent years, Furman has undertaken as editor or sole author, a series of studies of the former Soviet periphery: collections on Ukraine, Belarus, Chechnya, Azerbaijan, the Baltic States, a monograph on Kazakhstan, and dozens of separate essays and articles. Also, continuing with his earlier specialization, he produced works on religion in post-Soviet Russia as well as a collection of his political journalism Our Last Ten Years.