Boris Sokolov (russian: Бори́с Вади́мович Соколо́в; born January 2, 1957, in Moscow), is a historian and a
Russian literature
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researcher (he a has Candidate of Science degree in History and Habilitat Doctor of Science in Philology). In 1979 he graduated from the department of geography of the
Moscow State University, specialising in economic geography. His works have been translated into Japanese,
Polish,
Latvian and
Estonian
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* Estonians, people from Estonia, or of Estonian descent
* Estonian language
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. He has also translated literary works from various languages.
During
Soviet times, he worked at the Institute of World Literature. Subsequently, he served as a professor of
social anthropology
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at
Russian State Social University
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. In September 2008 he had to resign under pressure of the Administration of then-President Dmitrij Medvedev. After publishing the article 'Did Saakashvili lose?', he wrote numerous monographs, e.g. on
Gogol,
Sergei Esenin, and
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( rus, links=no, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bʊlˈɡakəf; – 10 March 1940) was a Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the fir ...
(Sokolov was the author of the ''Bulgakov Encyclo