Alexander Tarasov

Alexander Nikolaevich Tarasov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Тарасо́в, born March 8, 1958 in Moscow) is a Russian Post-Marxist theoretician, sociologist and historian. Tarasov was a left-wing political dissident in the Soviet Union. In the December 1972 - January 1973 period, together with Vasili Minorsky, he founded an underground left radical group called "The Party of New Communists" (PNK) (Russian: Партия новых коммунистов (ПНК)), and becam... more

Alexander Nikolaevich Tarasov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Тарасо́в, born March 8, 1958 in Moscow) is a Russian Post-Marxist theoretician, sociologist and historian. Tarasov was a left-wing political dissident in the Soviet Union. In the December 1972 - January 1973 period, together with Vasili Minorsky, he founded an underground left radical group called "The Party of New Communists" (PNK) (Russian: Партия новых коммунистов (ПНК)), and became the group's informal leader in the summer of 1973. In 1974 the PNK merged with "Left School" (Russian: Левая школа) to form "The Neo-communist Party of the Soviet Union" (NKPSS) (Russian: Неокоммунистическая партия Советского Союза (НКПСС)). Tarasov was one of the NKPSS leaders and theorists, writing the party program, The Principles of Neocommunism (Russian: Принципы неокоммунизма) in 1974. He was arrested by the KGB in 1975, but was not brought to trial. Instead, Tarasov was sent to a special psychiatric hospital. After his release, he... less