The pages of modern history of University political science: Scientific school of professor Vladimir Gutorov

Abstract

The article is devoted to Vladimir Alexandrovich Gutorov, whose 70th birthday was celebrated on December 7, 2020. Vladimir Gutorov is a polyglot and polymath, a world-renowned scientist, a leading national specialist in the history of socio-political thought, political philosophy and modern political theories, one of the organizers of the first university departments of political science in Russia (1989) and its head (since 1994), founder of an authoritative pedagogical and scientific school of the history of socio-political thought, political theory and political education at St. Petersburg State University, Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Political Science, Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov. He was one of the few in Soviet science who defended his doctoral dissertation in the form of a monograph. His monograph Ancient social utopia: questions of history and theory, published by the publishing house of Leningrad University in 1989, is recognized as one of the best Russian studies devoted to the problems of the genesis of social thought in Ancient Greece and various ancient projects of political reconstruction. Since the publication of the book on ancient utopia and the defense of his doctoral dissertation, Gutorov has become one of the most prominent representatives of the St. Petersburg school of modern Russian political science, an authoritative scientist recognized in Russia and the world.