Aleksey Vsevolodovich Malashenko (; 2 February 1951 – 3 January 2023) was a Russian academic and political scientist. He specialized in the oriental and Islamic studies. He was the son of actress .

Biography

Malashenko graduated from the

Institute of Asian and African Countries The Institute of Asian and African Studies () at Lomonosov Moscow State University was founded in 1956 as the Institute of Oriental Languages and was renamed to the Institute of Asian and African Countries in 1972. It is a Russian Centre for Ori ...

in 1974 with a degree in history. In 1972, he studied in Egypt and Turkmenistan. From 1974 to 1976, he served in the

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in Algeria. He was a researcher at

Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences The Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (), formerly Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, is a Russian research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Af ...

from 1976 to 1982. In 1978, he defended his dissertation on Islam in Algeria. Malashenko was an editor at the journal '' Problems of Peace and Socialism'' from 1982 to 1986. In 1986, he became head of the religious department at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he was lead researcher from 1999 to 2001. In 1990, he was a visiting professor at

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in the United States. From 2000 to 2006, he was a professor at the

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before teaching at the

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from 2007 to 2008. Malashenko was a member of the scientific council of the

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from 2007 to 2016. In October 2016, he became head of scientific research at

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. He was head of the expert council at

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. Malashenko spoke Russian, Arabic, English, and French and wrote and edited 18 books in those languages. He died on 3 January 2023 at the age of 71.

Works in English

*''The Soviet Union and the Muslim Nations'' (1988) *''The Last Red August'' (1993) *''Islam in Central Asia'' (1994)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Malashenko, Aleksey 1951 births 2023 deaths Russian political scientists Soviet historians 21st-century Russian historians Russian orientalists Russian Arabists Academic staff of the Higher School of Economics Academic staff of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations Scientists from Moscow 20th-century Russian historians