Angelo Segrillo

from Missouri State University, a master's degree from the Pushkin Institute (Moscow, Russia) and a doctorate from Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil).

Segrillo's doctoral dissertation — published under the title O Declínio da URSS: um estudo das causas (“The Decline of the USSR: a study of its causes”) — was the first major Brazilian academic work using first-hand research into the formerly classified Soviet files.

[1] Notable among other books written by Angelo Segrillo in Portuguese are Rússia e Brasil em Comparação (“Russia and Brazil in Comparison”, a comparative analysis of Russian and Brazilian political parties in the process of democratization since 1985) and Rússia: Europa ou Ásia (“Russia: Europe or Asia?”, about the debates between Westernizers, Slavophiles and Eurasianists and how these identity questions shape Russia´s foreign policy today between East and West).

Among his works in the English language, Professor Segrillo proposed a new index to measure political and economic democracy in his 2012 article, Liberalism, Marxism and Democratic Theory Revisited: Proposal of a Joint Index of Political and Economic Democracy.

[3] In 2020, three of the main books by A. Segrillo were translated into English: The Decline of the Soviet Union: An Analysis of the Causes,[4] Russia: Europe or Asia?, and Karl Marx’s “Capital” (Vols.