Sergey Kara-Murza
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Sergey Georgyevich Kara-Murza (Russian: Сеpгей Геоpгиевич Каpа-Муpза) (born January 23, 1939), Soviet and Russian chemist, historian, political philosopher and sociologist.
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Sergey Kara-Murza was graduated with degree in chemistry from Moscow State University in 1961. Between 1966 and 1972 he worked as a Soviet chemical specialist in Cuba. In 1983 Sergey Kara-Murza defended his doctoral thesis in history of science and technology and in 1988 became a professor. Sergey Kara-Murza taught in Russia and Spain and authored several publications and academic studies dedicated to history, science and society. His most prominent works: Mind Manipulations published in 2000 was dedicated to establishing and describing the problem of manipulation of public opinion by pro-Western mass media in Russia and Soviet Civilization, a work about history, political and economical organization of USSR. In the late 1990s and early 2000s Sergey Kara-Murza wrote a number of political and philosophical works on Eurocentrism, Globalization and Color revolutions. His articles were frequent in left-wing Russian newspapers such as Pravda, Alexander Prokhanov's Zavtra and Soviet Russia. Sergey Kara-Murza became known for his anti-Globalization, anti-capitalist and anti-Westernist views; however, he is also anti-Marxist. His ideological views can be described as Russian "left-wing conservatism". He is related to Vladimir A. Kara-Murza and Vladimir V. Kara-Murza.
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