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Leonid Grinin
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Leonid Efimovich Grinin (Леони́д Ефи́мович Гри́нин; born in 1958) is a Russian philosopher of history, sociologist, political anthropologist, economist, and futurologist.
Born in Kamyshin (the Volgograd Region), Grinin attended Volgograd State Pedagogical University, where he got an M.A. in 1980. He got his Ph.D. from Moscow State University in 1996.
He is a Research Professor and Director of the Volgograd Center for Social Research, Deputy Director of the Eurasian Center for Big History & System Forecasting at the Oriental Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Senior Research Professor at the Center for Stability and Risk Analysis of HSE University . He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Age of Globalization (in Russian), a vice-editor of the journals History and Modernity, Historical Psychology and Sociology of History and Philosophy and Society (all in Russian), and a co-editor of the Social Evolution & History and Journal of Globalization Studies, as well as co-editor of yearbooks History & Mathematics and Evolution.
Dr. Grinin is the author of more than 500 scholarly publications in Russian and English, including 30 monographs and other scholarly publications dealing with his research interests . In 2012 he was awarded with the Gold Kondratieff Medal by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation.
Leonid Grinin's current research interests include Big History and macro-evolution, globalization studies, economic cycles, the long-term trends in the cultural evolution and evolution of technologies, technological forecasting, periodization of history, political anthropology and long-term development of the political systems, world-systems studies, revolutions.
Grinin suggests a four-staged periodization of historical process. The transition from one stage to another is the change of all basic characteristics of the respective stage. As the starting point of such a change Grinin proposes the production principle that describes the major qualitative stages of the development of the world productive forces.
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