Lev Gudkov

Russian sociologist Lev Dmitrievich Gudkov (Russian: Лев Дмитриевич Гудков; 6 December 1946)[citation needed] is a Russian sociologist and one of the leading researchers of Russian public opinion. He was the director of the Levada Center from 2006 to 2021 and has since served as the center's academic supervisor. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Russian Public Opinion Herald. He is known for developing, together with Yuri Levada, the concept of “Homo Sovieticus” (“Soviet Man”). In 2025, he was designated as a “foreign agent” by the Russian Ministry of Justice. Gudkov has been described as the “Galileo Galilei” of Russian sociology. Early life and education Gudkov was born on 6 December 1946.[where?] He studied journalism, sociology, and philology at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and graduated in 1971. From 1970 to 1973, Gudkov worked for the department of methodology of researching social processes at the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the following four years until 1977, Gudkov was an employee of the department of philosophy and sociology at the Institute for Scientific Information on Social Studies, which belongs to the Russian Acad