Moisey Ostrogorsky
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Moisey Ostrogorsky (Hrodna, Belarus, 1854 - Petrograd, February 10th 1921) was a Belarusian political scientist, historian, jurist and sociologist.
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[edit] Biography
Ostrogorsky studied law at Saint Petersburg State University and worked for the Russian justice ministry. In the 1880s he went to Paris and studied at the Parisian Free school of Political Sciences (Ecole libre de sciences politiques) where he wrote his dissertation Les origines du suffrage universel (The origins of universal suffrage) (1885).
He traveled to the United States and Great Britain. In 1902 he published Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties (originally in French), and after returning to Russia in 1906, he became the Duma representative for the Grodno province. He left politics after the Duma was dissolved during the Russian Revolution.
As a political thinker, he was first recognized in the West, then in Russia. Ostrogorsky has been quite influential on the political thought of the 20th century. Alongside with Max Weber and Robert Michels, he is considered one of the founders of political sociology, especially in the field of doctrines about political parties.[citation needed]
After leaving politics he taught at the Psychoneurological institute in St. Petersburg.[citation needed]
[edit] Work on political science
Ostrogorsky is the author of a book that is concerned with the equality of the sexes La Femme au point de vue du droit public [1].
His main work is La democratie et l'organisation des partis politiques [2]. This book was entitled переиздана in Soviet- (in two volumes-, 1927, 1930) and post-Soviet- (to 1997) periods of Russian history. Острогорского contained additions with regards to the development of the English political system in The Bulletin of Europe (1913, 9 - 12).
[edit] Works
As a lawyer:
- The Legal Calendar (1876)
- The Cassation practice for a year (1881)
As a historian:
- Chronology of Russian history (1872)
- Chronology of general and Russian history (1873)
- Brief chronology of general and Russian history (1873)
- History of Russia for national schools (1891)
- The Textbook of Russian history for III class of grammar schools (1891)
[edit] References
- ^ (Paris, 1892, 2 English edition, London, 1908; German translation, Leipzig, 1897, the Polish translation, Warsaw, 1898)
- ^ (Paris, 1903; the English edition, London, 1903; processing of 2-nd volume under title Democracy and the Party System in the United States, New York, 1910; the new advanced edition of all works under the title La democratie et les partis politiques, "Democracy and Political Parties", Paris, 1912)
