Viktor Sheynis

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Viktor Sheynis
Виктор Шейнис
Sheynis on Noveber 16, 2018
State Duma deputy
In office
11 January 1994 – 18 January 2000
Congress of People's Deputies deputy
In office
16 May 1990 – 4 October 1993
Personal details
Born(1931-02-16)16 February 1931
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died25 June 2023(2023-06-25) (aged 92)
Moscow
Resting placeKhovanskoye Cemetery
Political partyYabloko
Other political
affiliations		CPSU (until 1991)
Alma materLeningrad State University
AwardsMedal "Defender of a Free Russia"
Hungarian Order of Merit

Viktor Leonidovich Sheynis (Russian: Виктор Леонидович Шейнис; February 16, 1931, Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR – June 25, 2023) was a Soviet and Russian politician, economist, political scientist, and member of the Political Committee of the Yabloko Party. He held a doctorate in economics.

Biography

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Born into a Jewish family, in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, he graduated from the History Department of Leningrad State University. In 1966, he earned his PhD in Economics from the Economics Department of Leningrad State University, with a dissertation titled "Portuguese Colonialism in Africa: Economic Problems and Development Trends in the Postwar Period".[1] In 1982, he earned his Doctor of Economics from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, with a dissertation titled "Economic Growth, Social Processes, and Differentiation of Developing Countries: Problems and Contradictions".[2] He is also a professor.[3][4]

Work and Political Protest

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From 1954 to 1957, he worked as a history teacher at Leningrad School No. 107. From 1957 to 1958, he was a graduate student at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

In 1957, Sheynis, along with other authors, wrote the article "The Truth About Hungary," criticizing the Soviet invasion of Hungary. In 1958, he was expelled from the Komsomol and graduate school for this action.

From 1958 to 1964, he worked at the Kirov (formerly Putilov) factory in Leningrad.[4]

Academic Activity

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From 1964 to 1975, he was a graduate student, then an assistant, and then an associate professor in the Department of Economics of Contemporary Capitalism at Leningrad University. He taught the economics of foreign countries. He was forced to leave his teaching position at the university due to political "unreliability."

From 1975 to 1977, he was a senior researcher at the Institute of Socio-Economic Problems of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Leningrad). From 1977, he became a senior researcher, leading researcher, and chief researcher at the IMEMO of the USSR Academy of Sciences (before being elected to the State Duma). Since 2000, he has again served as a chief research fellow at the IMEMO.

Political career

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Since 1988, he has been a member of the Moscow Tribune [ru] club.

In 1990, he was elected as a People's Deputy of the RSFSR for Sevastopol Electoral District No. 47 in Moscow after his rival, Igor Surikov, withdrew under pressure from the electoral commission. In 1991, he was an active opponent of the State Committee on the State of Emergency. From 1991 to 1993, he was a member of the Soviet of the Republic of the Supreme Soviet of Russia and Deputy Executive Secretary of the Constitutional Commission of the Supreme Soviet of Russia. At the Congress of People's Deputies of Russia, he was one of the organizers of the "Consent for Progress" faction»[5], which generally supported Boris Yeltsin's policies but opposed the unconstitutional dissolution of parliament.[6]

On December 12, 1991, as a member of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, he voted to ratify the Belovezha Accords on the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.[7][8] From 1993 to 1994, he was Deputy Chairman of the Commission on Legislative Proposals under the President of Russia. He was one of the authors of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.[9][10]

In the December 1993 parliamentary election, he was elected to the State Duma on the federal list of the Yavlinsky-Boldyrev-Lukin Bloc electoral association, of which he was one of the founders. He joined the Yabloko faction and was a member of the Committee on Legislation and Judicial-Legal Reform.

In the December 1995 parliamentary election, he was elected to the State Duma on the federal list of the Yabloko electoral association. He joined the Yabloko faction and was a member of the State Duma Committee on Legislation and Judicial-Legal Reform.

During the Soviet era, he was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[11] He later became a member of Yabloko. He was a theorist and practitioner of Russian parliamentarism.

On May 23, 2010, he participated as an observer in the parliamentary elections in the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, after which he was included by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan on the list of personae non gratae[12] for violating the "Law on the State Border" of the Republic of Azerbaijan; Baku considers the territories controlled by the NKR to be "occupied".[13] Sheynis himself commented on this fact: "I will survive this."[14].

He died on June 25, 2023, at the age of 92, after a long illness.[15][16] He is buried in the Khovanskoye Cemetery.[17]

Viktor Sheynis wrote about his political experience:

The years spent in politics were the most interesting and, probably, the most controversial of my life. I regret almost nothing I did during those years. I'm glad we've settled accounts (even if incompletely and inconsistently) with one of the worst chapters of Russian history—Stalinism and its continuation—a period dubbed by the ridiculous euphemism "stagnation". I regret, however, the many things I and my political friends failed to accomplish. We lacked the wisdom (and sometimes just common sense) and strength to direct domestic economic development along a different path—like that taken by, say, Poland or Brazil. As a result, the country is where it is at the beginning of the new millennium. Much of this probably didn't depend on us.[18]

He was married to sociologist and PhD candidate in economics Alla Konstantinovna Nazimova (born 1932).[19]

References

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  1. ^ "Шейнис, Виктор Леонидович (1931-). - Португальский колониализм в Африке : Экономические проблемы и тенденции развития в послевоенный период : диссертация ... кандидата экономических наук : 08.00.00. - Ленинград, 1966. - 570 с. : ил. - Search RSL". search.rsl.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2025-06-22.
  2. ^ Виктор Леонидович Шейнис (1981). Экономический рост, социальные процессы и дифференциация развивающихся стран: проблемы и противоречия: диссертация ... доктора экономических наук: 08.00.17 (Thesis). Москва.
  3. ^ "Умер один из основателей "Яблока" и авторов Конституции РФ Виктор Шейнис". interfax. Archived from the original on 2023-06-25. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
  4. ^ a b "Шейнис Виктор Леонидович Член Федерального политического комитета партии. Доктор экономических наук, профессор". yabloko.ru. Archived from the original on 2023-06-25. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
  5. ^ "Виктор Шейнис: Депутатом я стал случайно". Газета «Московское Яблоко», №6, 1-15 сентября 1999 года. Archived from the original on 2017-12-21.
  6. ^ Коргунюк, Юрий Григорьевич, Заславский С. Е. (1996). Российская многопартийность: становление, функционирование, развитие. Moscow: Фонд ИНДЕМ. Archived from the original on 2023-04-15.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "Бабурин С. Н. На гибель Советского Союза". Archived from the original on 2013-11-13. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
  8. ^ "V.Pribylovsky, Gr.Tochkin. Kto i kak uprazdnil SSSR". Archived from the original on 2021-01-26. Retrieved 2013-12-01.
  9. ^ Алена Вершинина (2018-12-11). ""Исходили из того, что это меньшее зло". Автор Конституции РФ – о главном дефекте документа, который он видел еще 25 лет назад". Настоящее время телеканал. Archived from the original on 2019-07-27. Retrieved 2019-07-27.
  10. ^ Михаил Соколов (2013-12-12). "Конституция 20 лет не мешает политической деградации". Радио «Свобода». Archived from the original on 2019-07-27. Retrieved 2019-07-27.
  11. ^ "«Поэтому я не жалею, что я тогда вступил в партию.» прямая речь Шейниса из интервью 1990 года". Archived from the original on 2022-04-02. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
  12. ^ МИД Азербайджана (2013). "Arzuolunmaz Şəxslərin Siyahisi" (PDF) (in Azerbaijani). Официальный сайт Министерства иностранных дел Азербайджанской Республики. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-06. Retrieved 2013-08-09.
  13. ^ Намиг Гусейнов. (2013-08-06). "МИД Азербайджана: большинство лиц армяне заманили на оккупированные территории обманом". aze.az. Archived from the original on 2013-08-09.
  14. ^ "Культ Личности. Виктор Шейнис". Радио Свобода. 2015.
  15. ^ "Умер один из авторов Конституции России Виктор Шейнис". Известия (in Russian). 2023-06-25. Archived from the original on 2023-06-25. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
  16. ^ "Умер один из авторов Конституции России и основателей "Яблока" Виктор Шейнис". TACC. Archived from the original on 2023-06-25. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
  17. ^ Алёна и Павел Кац (2023-09-15). "ШЕЙНИС Виктор Леонидович (1931 – 2023)". Московские могилы. Archived from the original on 2023-12-06. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
  18. ^ Шейнис В. Л. Взлет и падение парламента: переломные годы в российской политике (1985—1993). Т 1., с. 16)
  19. ^ "Шейнис Виктор Леонидович | Партия ЯБЛОКО". Archived from the original on 2023-06-25. Retrieved 2023-06-25.