Sergey Kara-Murza

thumb|Sergey Kara-Murza Sergey Kara-Murza (23 January 1939 – 18 October 2025) was a Soviet and Russian chemist, historian, political philosopher and sociologist. About Kara-Murza Kara-Murza's writings have a strong focus on manipulation of public persuasion. This accords with an idea which was particularly popular in Russia at the beginning of the new millennium, that 'social programming' could replace genuine public engagement in politics. This idea is linked to the successful deploy- ment of the crude propaganda campaign which took place during the presidential elections in 1996, when within six months Yeltsin had gone from being at the bottom of the list of candidates to winning the election). Kara-Murza's focus on the use of manipulative technologies, and the relative popularity of this explanatory framework during the 2000s, can be compared to the American conspiracy theories devoted to brainwashing technologies which emerged during the Cold War. Ilya Yablokov External links Category:1939 births Category:Chemists from Russia Category:Historians from Russia Category:Philosophers from Russia Category:Sociologists from Russia Category:2025 deaths