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Leokadia Drobizheva: personality, scholar, public figure Mukomel V.I.
44-53 p. doi.org: https://doi.org/10.22378/he.2026-11-1.44-53 Abstract. The article is devoted to Leokadia M. Drobizheva, one of the key founders of ethnosociology in Russia. It reveals three aspects of her life and professional path: personal qualities that had a huge impact on the formation of research teams in Moscow and in the regions of Russia, her academic work, and public activities. The article shows that Leokadia Drobizheva’s work reflects the development of ethnosociology as a scientific field. Central attention is paid to the analysis of the evolution of L.M. Drobizheva’s research field. Several stages of the transformation of her scientific interests are considered. First of all, it is the Soviet stage (1961–1990) – the period of ethnosocial research formation, the formulation of subjects of analysis, their methodology, goals and objectives. Secondly, the 1990s is the period of intensive familiarization with scholarly developments in the West, while at the same time it was necessary to analyze tectonic shifts in interethnic relations and national policies in the newly independent states. Finally, in the 2000s, when the goals and objectives of Russia’s national policy were being reconsidered in connection with the changing situation; indicators and tools for implementing the nationality policy (ethnonational policy) were being developed. Particular attention is drawn to the last stage. It is shown that already at the end of the first decade of the 2000s, L.M. Drobizheva’s focus shifted from traditional ethnosociological topics to the problems of consolidating Russian society, the key element of which she considered to be the all-Russian civic identity. The issues of the formation of national identity, its measurement, and correlation with other identification characteristics, primarily ethnic and territorial identities, became the main topics of her research and publications in subsequent years, when L.M. Drobizheva not only promoted her ideas in academic papers, but also was actively present in the public space. The paper is based both on the study of the creative legacy of Leokadia Drobizheva and on the author’s personal impressions from interacting with her during many years of work under her leadership. Keywords: L.M. Drobizheva; ethnosociology; ethnonational politics; Russian identity; ethnic identity; interethnic situation; interethnic integration; consolidation For citation: Mukomel V.I. (2026) Leokadia Drobizheva: personality, scholar, public figure. Istoricheskaya etnologiya [Historical Ethnology]. Vol. 11. No. 1: 44–53. https://doi.org/10.22378/he.2026-11-1.44-53 (In Russ.)
REFERENCES Arutyunyan Yu.V. (2005) On the potential of interethnic integration in the megalopolis of Moscow. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Research]. No. 1: 27–40 (In Russ.) About the author: Vladimir I. Mukomel, Doctor Sc. (Sociology), Chief Researcher, Head of the Center for the Studies of Interethnic Relations, Institute of Sociology of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (24/35, building 5 Krzhizhanovskiy St., Moscow 117218, Russian Federation); https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7896-0261; e-mail: mukomel@mail.ru
Received 30.10.2025 Revised 15.12.2025 Accepted for publication 30.12.2025 Published Online 02.03.2026 |
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