Grigory Yudin

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Borisovich and the family name is Yudin.
Grigory Yudin
Григорий Юдин
Yudin in 2019
Born
Grigory Borisovich Yudin

(1983-08-10) August 10, 1983 (age 41)
Fryazino, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
EducationHigher School of Economics
University of Manchester
The New School
Alma materHigher School of Economics
Occupation(s)Sociologist, columnist
Known forSpecialist in the theory of democracy and economic anthropology
Scientific career
FieldsSociology, political science, philosophy
InstitutionsHigher School of Economics
Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences

Grigory Borisovich Yudin, also known as Greg Yudin (born 1983), is a Russian political scientist and sociologist. Yudin is an expert in public opinion and polling in Russia. He is columnist for the newspaper Vedomosti and the online magazine Republic,[1] as well as the website Proekt.[2] He has also written for Open Democracy.[3]

Life

Yudin gained his BA and MA in sociology at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow.[1] In 2012, he received a PhD in anthropology from the University of Manchester. He is a Senior Researcher in the Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology at the Higher School of Economics, and heads Russia's first MA program in political philosophy at the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences.[1]

In early 2022, Yudin warned of a lack of political awareness amongst the Russian population about the Russo-Ukrainian crisis.[4] On 22 February 2022, Yudin predicted that Putin was "about to start the most senseless war in history".[5] After participating in protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, he was beaten unconscious by police and needed treatment at the Sklifosovsky Institute in central Moscow.[6]

In 2023-2024 Yudin is visiting research scholar at the University Center for Human Values at the University of Princeton. He is also studying at The New School for Social Research in New York to obtain a PhD in politics.[7]

In 2024, Yudin joined other Russian academics living abroad, including Evgeny Roshchin and Artemy Magun, in creating the Institute for Global Reconstitution, a group proposing a reformed constitution for Russia in the event that the Putin regime collapses. The proposal, for a Union of Republics of Russia, prompted debate among the Russian opposition on the future for a post-Putin Russia.[8]

Works

  • (with Ivan Pavlyutkin) "Recording the ambiguity: The moral economy of debt books in a Russian small town". Cultural Studies. 29 (5–6): 807–826. 2015. doi:10.1080/09502386.2015.1017145. S2CID 154335216.
  • Yudin, Greg (2016). "Sociology as a naïve science: Alfred Schütz and the phenomenological theory of attitudes". Human Studies. 39 (4): 547–568. doi:10.1007/s10746-016-9401-9. S2CID 146951744.
  • "Governing Through Polls: Politics of Representation and Presidential Support in Putin's Russia". Javnost / The Public. 27 (1): 1–15. 2020.
  • "Why is Putin's Russia threatening Ukraine?". Open Democracy. 19 January 2022.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Greg Yudin". School of Advanced Studies. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Greg Yudin". uhnwidata. Archived from the original on 28 February 2022. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  3. ^ "Greg Yudin". Open Democracy. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  4. ^ Eva Hartog (29 January 2022). "Putin gambles Russia's economy over Ukraine". Politico. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  5. ^ Greg Yudin (22 February 2022). "Putin is about to start the most senseless war in history". Open Democracy. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Russian socialists on Ukraine anti-war protests and turning resistance into class war". 26 February 2022. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  7. ^ "Greg Yudin". University of Princeton. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
  8. ^ Welcome to the Union of Republics of Russia: A group of Russian researchers have proposed a new constitution for the post-Putin era. Meduza breaks down its key points., Meduza (July 3, 2024).