PHILOSOPHER

Alexander Zinoviev

1922 - 2006

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Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Зино́вьев; 29 October 1922 – 10 May 2006) was a Soviet philosopher, writer, sociologist and journalist. Coming from a poor peasant family, a participant in World War II, Alexander Zinoviev in the 1950s and 1960s was one of the symbols of the rebirth of philosophical thought in the Soviet Union. After the publication in the West of the screening book Yawning Heights, which brought Zinoviev world fame, in 1978 he was expelled from the country and deprived of Soviet citizenship. He returned to Russia in 1999. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Zinoviev is the 880th most popular philosopher (down from 685th in 2019), the 1,008th most popular biography from Russia (down from 697th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Russian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Alexander Zinoviev ranks 880 out of 1,267. Before him are Arethas of Caesarea, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, Johann Heinrich Alsted, Hermippus of Smyrna, and Hugo Kołłątaj. After him are Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Paul de Man, Alain Finkielkraut, Louis Lavelle, Gómez Pereira, and Albrecht Ritschl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Alexander Zinoviev ranks 195. Before him are Farrokhroo Parsa, Eileen Essell, Eusebio Tejera, Jackie Cooper, George Knobel, and Manuel Fraga. After him are Hammer DeRoburt, Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, Stanley Schachter, Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, Fritz Hollings, and William Baumol. Among people deceased in 2006, Alexander Zinoviev ranks 153. Before him are Maynard Ferguson, Richard Bright, Ferenc Szusza, Galina Ustvolskaya, Carlo Acutis, and Paul Halmos. After him are Maureen Stapleton, Mickey Spillane, Anthony Franciosa, Jerry Brudos, Shoshana Damari, and Gerard Reve.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Zinoviev ranks 1,008 out of 3,761. Before him are Yakov Protazanov (1881), Yekaterina Furtseva (1910), Alexander Tcherepnin (1899), Leah Goldberg (1911), Alexei Tupolev (1925), and Zinaida Greceanîi (1956). After him are Anatoli Boukreev (1958), Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov (1907), Arkady Rotenberg (1951), Nikolai Zverev (1832), Nadezhda Chizhova (1945), and Theophan the Recluse (1815).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Russia

Among philosophers born in Russia, Alexander Zinoviev ranks 20. Before him are Pyotr Lavrov (1823), Aleksey Khomyakov (1804), Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (1829), Nikolai Amosov (1913), Volin (1882), and Konstantin Leontiev (1831). After him are Vasily Rozanov (1856), Evald Ilyenkov (1924), Ivan Aksakov (1823), Boris Parygin (1930), Alexander Men (1935), and Ivan Kireyevsky (1806).

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