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
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. 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
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.
Segrillo´s doctoral dissertation — published under the title ''O Declínio da URSS: um estudo das causas'' (“The Decline of the USSR: a study of its causes”) — 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
Post-Fordism is the dominant system of economic production, consumption, and associated socio-economic phenomena in most industrialized countries since the late 20th century. It is contrasted with Fordism, the system formulated in Henry Ford's aut ...
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 ''Rússia e Brasil em Comparação'' (“Russia and Brazil in Comparison”, a comparative analysis of Russian and Brazilian political parties in the process of democratization since 1985) and ''Rússia: Europa ou Ásia'' (“Russia: Europe or Asia?”, 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
The Table of Ranks (russian: Табель о рангах, Tabel' o rangakh) was a formal list of positions and ranks in the military, government, and court of Imperial Russia. Peter the Great introduced the system in 1722 while engaged in a ...
in a 2016 paper. In 2020, three of the main books by A. Segrillo were translated into English:
The Decline of the Soviet Union: An Analysis of the Causes',
[Angelo Segrillo]
The Decline of the Soviet Union: An Analysis of the Causes
São Paulo: FFLCH/USP, 2020. Russia: Europe or Asia?', and
Karl Marx’s “Capital” (Vols. 1, 2, 3) Abridged'.
Selected bibliography
In English
The Decline of the Soviet Union: An Analysis of the Causes São Paulo: FFLCH/USP, 2020.
São Paulo: FFLCH/USP, 2020.
Karl Marx’s “Capital” (Vols. 1, 2, 3) Abridged São Paulo: FFLCH/USP, 2020.
The Decline of the Soviet Union: A Hypothesis on Industrial Paradigms, Technological Revolutions and the Roots of Perestroika LEA Working Paper Series, no. 2, December 2016.
*
A First Complete Translation into English of Peter the Great´s Original Table of Ranks: Observations on the Occurrence of a Black Hole in the Translation of Russian Historical Documents LEA Working Paper Series, no. 1, November 2016.
In Russian
Alternativy, no. 2, pp. 157–161, 1999.
* Ontologiya i Ideal Sotsializma pri Lenine, Trotskom i Staline: tri spornykh voprosa. In: Abramson, I.G. et al. (eds.) Sotsialisticheskii Ideal i Real´nyi Sotsialism: Lenin, Trotskii, Stalin. Moscow: LENAND, 2011.
Demokratizatsiya v Rossii i Brazilii: Sravnitel'nyi Analiz Alternativy, no. 4, pp. 131–139, 2010.
In French
* Occidentalisme, Slavophilie et Eurasianisme: Les Intellectuels et lês Homes Politiques à la Recherche de L´indentité Russe. In: Modernités Nationales, Modernités Importées: entre Ancien et Nouveau Monde XIXe-XXIe Siècle (org. Denis Rolland & Daniel Aarão Reis). Paris: L´Harmattan, 2012.
* Le Système Soviétique et la Modernité : quantifier la démocratie économique comme la démocratie libérale pour tenter un bilan comparatif. In: Modernités Alternatives: L´historien face aux discours et représentations de la modernité (org. Denis Rolland & Daniel Aarão Reis). Paris : L´Harmattan, 2009.
In Portuguese
* Rússia: Europa ou Ásia? A questão da identidade russa nos debates entre ocidentalistas, eslavófilos e eurasianistas e suas consequências hoje na política da Rússia entre Ocidente e Oriente. Curitiba: Prismas, 2016.
* De Gorbachev a Putin: a saga da Rússia do socialismo ao capitalismo. Curitiba: Prismas, 2015.
* Ásia e Europa em Comparação Histórica: o debate entre eurocentrismo e asiocentrismo na história econômica comparada de Ásia e Europa. Curitiba: Prismas, 2014.
* Os Russos. São Paulo: Contexto, 2012.
* Rússia e Brasil em Transformação: uma breve história dos partidos russos e brasileiros na democratização política. Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, 2005.
* Herdeiros de Lenin: a história dos partidos comunistas na Rússia pós-soviética. Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, 2003.
* O Declínio da URSS: um estudo das causas. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2000 (2nd edition: Prismas, 2013).
References
External links
Russia and Brazil: Democratization in Comparative Perspective(Speaker Series, Middlebury College).
Angelo Segrillo´s homepage(in Portuguese).
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1958 births
Living people
Historians of Russia
20th-century Brazilian historians
University of São Paulo faculty
21st-century Brazilian historians