Mikhail Agursky

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Mikhail Agursky (Russian: Михаил Агурский, 1933 Moscow - 21 August 1991 Moscow) was a Jewish sovietologist, cybernetic^[1] and historian of National Bolshevism.^[2] Agursky was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Biography

Mikhail Agursky was born as Melik Agursky in Moskow in 1933 to a Jewish family. His father Samuel Agursky was revolutionary and historian.^[3] Mikhail Agursky received an education in engineering and defended a dissertation on cybernetics.^[4] In 1975 he emigrated to Israel.^[5] Agursky became a Fellow of the Soviet and East European Research Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His book "The Ideology of National Bolshevism" was published in Paris in 1980.^[6] On 21 August 1991 Agursky was found dead on in his hotel room in Moscow.^[7]

References

External links

Mikhail Agursky - The Ideology of National Bolshevism

Persondata
Name	Agursky, Mikhail
Alternative names	Agursky, Melik (birth name); Михаил Агурский (Russian)
Short description	Jewish sovietologist, cybernetic, and and historian
Date of birth	1933
Place of birth	Moscow, USSR
Date of death	21 August 1991
Place of death	Moscow, Russia

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