Talk:Igor Shafarevich

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Igor Shafarevich is within the scope of the Russian History WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Russian History. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.

This article must adhere to the policy on biographies of living persons. Controversial material of any kind that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous. If such material is repeatedly inserted or there are other concerns relative to this policy, report it on the living persons biographies noticeboard.

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.	Biography Portal
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's quality scale. Please rate the article and then leave a short summary here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article. [FAQ]

[edit] Mathematics

Clearly, the discussion of math contributions of Shafarevich is completely inadequate. Please whoever is an expert add more material!

[edit] Anti-Semitism

I've been working on cleaning up Category:Anti-Semitic people. This article is really vague to someone unfamiliar with this person as to what anti-Semitic activities he has been involved with. Some clearer facts would be appreciated. -- Kendrick7^talk 02:55, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

The sort of thing that is said:

The most prominent, and probably the most interesting intellectually is that of “Russophobia,” the expression of antisemitism as a result of the Russians' loss of cultural identity. The basic outlook of the persons in this group, exemplified by Shafarevich, is a belief in an immanent national character. Russians are believed to be open, accepting, and hospitable. They are deemed to have a unique cultural mission in the world, expressed through their Eastern Orthodox religion, the traditional village community, and Russia's position in the world as the northern Eurasian land mass. Essentially, this view derives from the Slavophilic philosophies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in their struggle against the introduction of the industrial and democratic values of Western Europe and America into Eastern Europe. These philosophies regard Jews as non-assimilating, exclusionary, manipulative, and power-seeking. Even more important, Jews are seen as a foreign implant into Russia, and with their estrangement from village collectivism and their imputed propensity for individual activity and individual profit, they become the embodiment of those values rejected by the Slavophiles. This group of antisemites also demonstrates a consistent propensity to judge people as collectives rather than individuals. They are firm believers in national character as a dominant and unchanging force.

This is from [1]. It amounts to saying that slavophiles of the kind Shafarevich undoubtedly is have an ideological commitment. I know nothing at all about personal matters, other than to Shafarevich's credit. Charles Matthews 23:01, 20 December 2006 (UTC)