Scientology: A Way of Spiritual Self-Identification
 
MICHAEL A. SIVERTSEV
EXPERT ADVISER ON INTERNATIONAL MATTERS
TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
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      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    BORN: August 1942

    EDUCATION: Ph.D. (1973) Economist on Typology of Employment
Statistics, Institute of International Labour Movement, Academy of Sciences 1970­1973, Graduate School, Institute of International Labour Movement. 1959­1965, Undergraduate Student, Moscow Aviation Institute of Economics.

    PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 1965­1969, Junior Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Institute of National Economy Plenkhanov. 1973­1976, Fellow, Institute of International Labour Movement, Academy of Sciences of the USSR. 1976 ­
present, Senior Fellow, Institute of the USA and Canada, Russian Academy of Sciences.

    AREA OF SPECIALIZATION: Political Sociology with a special interest in inter-ethnic and inter-confessional interaction, political leadership typology, history and theory of culture.

    RESEARCH PROJECTS: 1990­, The Problems of Ethnic - Confessional Identity, Institute of USA and Canada, Academy of Sciences. 1985­1990, Political Leadership Models, Institute of USA and Canada. 1980­1985, Historic - Scientific Problems of Humanitarian Knowledge, Institute of USA and Canada. 1976­1980, Mathematical Models of Social Processes, Institute of USA and Canada. 1969­1976, Comparative Analyses of Employment Statistics, Institute of International Labour Movement.

    FIELD RESEARCH PROJECTS: 1991 and 1992 Program "The Portrait of the Oriental Village" Daghestan. 1989 Program on Longevity, Abkhazia.

    TEACHING, LECTURING: 1991­, Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion at Russian State Humanitarian University, Moscow. 1992­present - Professor of Politilogy of Jewish Diaspora at Moscow Jewish University.

    PUBLICATIONS/BOOKS: Typology of Interdependency of the US and Developing Countries. M.1988. The Problems of Employment Statistics Typology. M. 1975.

    MOST RECENT ARTICLES: "Russian Political Culture and the Prospects of Multi-Party System" - USA: Economics, Politics, Ideology 1993, No.1. "Political Movements and Parties: Origins and Prospects" - USA: Economics, Politics, Ideology 1993, No.2. "Charismatic Leadership: The Problems of Political Leadership" M.1993. "Daghestan Interviews" with author E. Rashkowski Russia and the Moslem World 1993 No.1. "The Effect of Traditional Cultural Discourse on the Formation of a Polycentric Image of the Fundamental Science" in Orient in Theories and Hypothesis. M.1992. "Islam in Daghestan" Russia and the Moslem World 1992 No.6. "The Fates of Culture in the Religious Philosophy of Paul Tillich" The Christian 1991 No.3 ­ 4.

    PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES: "Xenophobia, Racism, Anti-semitism" Moscow, 1993. "Judaic-Christian Dialogue" Eizenakh, Germany, 1992. "The European Thinking and the European Idea" Aalborg, Denmark, 1991.

    PUBLIC SERVICE: 1990­1993, Chairman, Moscow Partnership on Spiritual Dialogue; 1995, Appointed Chairman for New Religions of the Board of Cooperation with Religious Organizations of the Office of the Russian President.

Michael A. Sivertsev

July 1995, Moscow


 
 
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