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Igor Vasilievich Sledzevsky (born November 17, 1940, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian historian, specialist in the social history of Africa and the theory of civilizations. Historical science of the Soviet Union|Doctor of Historical Sciences. Head of the Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies at the Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Council on African Problems at the Department of Global Problems and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Member of the editorial board of the Vostok magazine. Author of a number of works on the philosophy of history.

Biography
He was born into a military family. Father - Sledzevsky Vasily Alexandrovich, colonel of the Soviet Army, participant in the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars, mother - Sledzevskaya Tatyana Vasilievna.

In 1963 he graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov. In 1966, he completed his graduate studies at the Institute of African Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1967 he defended his thesis on the topic “Modern Hausa of Northern Nigeria” at the Institute of African Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1990 he defended his doctoral dissertation “Sociohistorical structures of West Africa. Problems of relationships between local social organisms and the historical environment” at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Since 1967 he has been working at the Institute for African Studies. Between 1992-1998, he was the Head of the Laboratory of Civilizational Research at the Institute and between 1998-2008, the Director of the Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2002 he was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.

He is married and has a son.

Main works

 * Feudal relations among the modern Hausa of Northern Nigeria // Problems of African history. - M.: Nauka, 1966. - P. 151-172.
 * Colonial societies. Some issues of development and reproduction of multistructure // Africa: the emergence of backwardness and development paths. - M.: Science, 1974. - P. 291-426.
 * Pre-colonial era. Peasantry and nomadic population. Feudal lords and leaders. Bourgeoisie. Healthcare // Modern Nigeria (Handbook). — M.: Science. 1974. - P. 71 - 89, 168-197, 203-208, 366-371.
 * New Phenomena and Tendencies in Nigeria s Social and Political Development Economic Relations of Africa with the Socialist Countries. - Vol. 2. - Budapest, 1978. - P. 50 - 57 (co-authored).
 * Traditional sector of the economy at the present stage of development. Changes in the structure of the private capitalist economy. The role of the public sector and its socio-economic nature // Nigeria. The current stage of development. M.: Science. 1980. pp. 122-223.
 * Syncretism of Islam with traditional religions // Religions in the 20th century. Traditional and syncretic religions of Africa. - M.: Science, 1986. - P. 417-457 (co-authored).
 * Property and power in Nigeria // Nigeria: power and politics. - M.: Science, 1988. - P. 5-32.
 * On the question of the general theory of developing countries // Peoples of Asia and Africa. - 1989. - No. 6. - P. 31-32.
 * Interclade complexes and interclass communities in Africa // Africa class: class, non-class communities and social progress. - M.: Science, 1990. - P. 31−40.
 * Globalist metatheory: epistemological difficulties" // Civilizations. Issue 5. Problems of global studies and global history. - M.: Science, 2002. - P. 62 - 82.
 * Development of African countries as a problem of theoretical knowledge // Readings in memory of D. A. Olderogge. Problems of socio-political and cultural transformations of African societies in modern domestic African studies. Proceedings of the scientific conference “Africa: societies, cultures, languages” (St. Petersburg, May 5 - 6, 2005). - M.: Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2007. -P. 21 - 73.
 * The image of Russia as a semantic construct (semantic component of the “main Russian dispute”) // Social sciences and modernity. 2007. - No. 4. - P. 93 - 103; No. 5. - pp. 103-113.
 * Operating with symbolic and linguistic signs in non-literate African cultures: automaticity of behavior or a special logic of understanding the world? // Custom. Symbol. Power. - M.: Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2010. - P. 121-154.
 * Civilizational foundation and cultural logic of the transformation of the British world into an empire // British Empire in the 20th century. - M.: Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2010. - P. 24 - 45.