Risto Sakari Alapuro (28 April 1944 – 6 December 2022) was a Finnish sociologist. Alapuro was born in

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on 28 April 1944. Alapuro was a professor of sociology at

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between 1986 and 1991, and a professor at

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from 1991 to 2010. Alapuro was an internationally known social scientist who focused on historical sociology in Finland. He researched, studied and taught in France, Russia and the United States. He specialized in social movements, political conflicts and social networks. Alapuro wrote his doctoral dissertation '' Akateeminen Karjala-Seura'' (in 1973). His other works include ''State and revolution in Finland'' (1988), which concerns the Finnish civil war, and ''Suomen synty paikallisena ilmiönä 1890-1933'' (1994), which is about the birth of Finnish nationhood as a local phenomenon. Alapuro died in

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on 6 December 2022, at the age of 78.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Alapuro, Risto 1944 births 2022 deaths People from Ruokolahti Finnish sociologists 20th-century Finnish historians Academic staff of the University of Jyväskylä Members of Academia Europaea Members of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters Academic staff of the University of Helsinki