Sociologist and publicist Sergey Kara-Murza died at the age of 87.

Russian scientist, well-known publicist, Director General of the Center for the Study of Crisis Society Sergey Kara-Murza has died at the age of 86.

The philosopher Rustem Vakhitov announced his death in his Telegram channel on Saturday, October 18. He called Kara-Murza "one of the leading ideologists and publicists of the left-wing patriotic opposition of the 90s—2010s."

"Sergei Georgievich Kara-Murza has passed away — a man who showed the importance of the spirit of the Russian peasant community for Soviet society, a wise, sensitive, kind man whom I had the good fortune to know and consider and will consider my Teacher," the mourning post says.

Auto expressed his conviction that the name of Sergei Georgievich will remain among the outstanding publicists and ideologists of Russia — "the magnitude of Belinsky or Ustryalov."

Sergey Kara-Murza is known for his works on public consciousness. A supporter of collectivism and rational thinking. In the 1990s he was published in the newspaper Pravda. Among his journalistic works: "Manipulation of consciousness", "Dismantling of the people", "Lost Mind", "Soviet civilization", "Who are the Russians".

The philosopher criticized the liberal reforms of the 1990s, calling privatization a "military operation", a defense of the Soviet project.