Angelo Segrillo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Brazilian historian specialized in Russia and in comparative studies of Russia, the West and Brazil
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Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
About Angelo Segrillo
- Angelo de Oliveira Segrillo (born October 4, 1958) is a Brazilian historian specialized in Russia and in comparative studies of Russia, the West and Brazil.
- He holds a B.A.
- from Missouri State University, a master´s degree from the Pushkin Institute (Moscow, Russia) and a doctorate from Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil).
- He is an associate professor of history at the University of Sao Paulo. Segrillo´s doctoral dissertation â published under the title O DeclĂnio da URSS: um estudo das causas (âThe Decline of the USSR: a study of its causesâ) â was the first major Brazilian academic work using first-hand research into the formerly classified Soviet files.
- He analyzed the decline of the Soviet economy in its last decades not as a purely internal process, but as accompanying (and associated with) the changes in the world economy, which was moving from Fordist to Post-Fordist paradigms.
- The rigid, vertically oriented Soviet system had been competitive with the West in the decades when the (similarly rigid, vertically oriented) Fordism was paramount.
- However, when flexible post-Fordist paradigms (such as Toyotism) came along and set new rules for the game, the USSR started having problems of adaptation to these new requirements of flexibility.
- An abridged version of this argument can be seen in English in a short essay titled The Decline of the Soviet Union,Notable among other books written by Angelo Segrillo in Portuguese are RĂşssia e Brasil em Comparação (âRussia and Brazil in Comparisonâ, a comparative analysis of Russian and Brazilian political parties in the process of democratization since 1985) and RĂşssia: Europa ou Ăsia (âRussia: Europe or Asia?â, about the debates between Westernizers, Slavophiles and Eurasianists and how these identity questions shape Russia´s foreign policy today between East and West). Among his works in the English language, Professor Segrillo proposed a new index to measure political and economic democracy in his 2012 article, Liberalism, Marxism and Democratic Theory Revisited: Proposal of a Joint Index of Political and Economic Democracy.
- He also presented the first complete translation into English of Peter the Great´s original Table of Ranks in a 2016 paper.
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