Victor Schnirelmann
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Victor Alexandrovich Schnirelmann ' onMouseout='HidePop("50902")' href="/topics/Moscow">Moscow
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) is a Russian
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 historian, ethnologist
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 and a member of Academia Europaea
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 (since 1998). He is a senior researcher of N. N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 and an author of over 300 works, including over 20 monographies on archaeology
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. Schnirelmann's main fields include the ideologies of nationalism
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 in Russia and CIS
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, ethnocentrism
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 and irredentism
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.

Schnirelmann graduated from historical faculty at Moscow State University
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in 1971 and in 1977 upheld a thesis in the Ethnography Institute of Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1990 he defended a thesis in Ethnology and Anthropology Institute.

Selected works

  • Who gets the past? Competition for ancestors among non-Russian intellectuals in Russia. Washington D. C., Baltimore & London: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
  • The Myth of the Khazars and Intellectual Antisemitism in Russia, 1970s – 1990s. Jerusalem: The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002.
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