What is Teodor Shanin?
{{Infobox person | name = Teodor Shanin | image =Teodor Shanin 02.jpg | alt = | caption = Teodor Shanin in 2014 | birth_name = <!--only use if different from name--> | birth_date = {{birth date|1930|10|30}} | birth_place = [[Vilnius]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2020|2|4|1930|10|30}} | death_place = [[Moscow]] | nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]] | other_names = | occupation = Sociologist | known_for = ''The Awkward Class'' }} '''Teodor Shanin''' [[OBE]] (30 October 1930 – 4 February 2020) was a [[Lithuania]]n-born [[British people|British]]-[[Russia]]n sociologist. He worked as a Professor of Sociology at the [[Victoria University of Manchester|University of Manchester]]. He was best known for his first book, ''The Awkward Class, Political Sociology of Peasantry in a Developing Society, Russia, 1910-25'' (Clarendon Press, 1972).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/an-exchange-of-peasantries/106504.article|title=An exchange of peasantries|date=1998-03-20|work=Times Higher Education (THE)|access-date=2018-05-30|language=en}}</ref> He founded the [[Open Society Foundations|The Open Society Institute]], [[Ford Foundation]] and the [[Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences]] in 1995.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.msses.ru/en/about/history/|title=History|website=www.msses.ru|access-date=2018-05-30|archive-date=2018-06-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617165348/https://www.msses.ru/en/about/history/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Shanin was President of the Moscow School, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester, and an Honorary Fellow of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.msses.ru/en/about/teodor-shanin/|title=Teodor Shanin|website=www.msses.ru|access-date=2018-05-30}}</ref> In 2002 he was awarded the [[Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) for service to education in Russia.<ref>