Today, there are many opinions in assessing the multilateral activities of Leonid Gozman. A brilliant scientist made a significant contribution to the development of psychological science. His extensive teaching experience includes foreign work experience. A successful politician has come a long way in a short time and gained important acquaintances in power.
early years
Leonid was born in 1950 in Leningrad. His biography has developed quite successfully. After graduation, he entered the Faculty of Psychology at Moscow State University. After that, he stayed to teach at the university, headed the department of Political Psychology. He defended his thesis, became the author of several educational publications on psychology.
The beginning of a political career
Gozman linked his activities not only with pedagogy. He possessed psychological knowledge and wished them practical application. During perestroika, this became especially important; everyone wanted to directly participate in the ongoing process. The psychologist became a member of the famous intellectual clubs "Moscow Tribune" and "Karabakh".
All these years, Leonid did not forget about scientific work. In 1989, he joined the Russian Association of Psychologists. And four years later he used the opportunity to travel to the United States, where he helped Dickinson's students get education for six months. The teacher saw life abroad with his own eyes, which helped to form his own opinion about the positive and negative aspects of Western society.
In 1992, Gozman met with Yegor Gaidar. From that moment began his career in politics. Leonid became a member of the Democratic Party of Russia, entered the political council. He even put forward his candidacy in the State Duma from the united democratic forces, but failed. In 1996, he was appointed adviser to the head of the presidential administration, Anatoly Chubais. Their cooperation continued already at RAO UES. Since 2000, Gozman joined the board of the federal level energy system.
"ATP" and "Just Cause"
Most often, the name of Gozman is associated with the Union of Right Forces bloc. He went all the way from the formation of the organization to its dissolution. It all began in 1999, when he was offered membership in the SPS election headquarters. Two years later, he joined the political council. Although Nikita Belykh was elected leader of the Union, the next few years, the actual party leadership was carried out by Chubais and Gozman. In this connection, Leonid, who served as deputy, was the ideologist and guiding force of the movement. In 2007, he headed the St. Petersburg branch of the party and participated in the elections, but again without success. The election campaign of the bloc was subjected to pressure from the authorities. The Union of Right Forces took part in the March of Dissent, where its activists, including Gozman, were arrested. Well-known public figures accused the organization of moving away from liberal values and bribing voters. Their methods of waging the struggle were called populist, and the slogans were "empty demagogy." In 2008, the politician officially took over as chairman of ATP, but not for long. At the next meeting of the political council, they talked about the loss of political power of the bloc, a decision was made to cease its activities and dissolve itself.
The very next day, a new party, Just Cause, was created, consisting of representatives of ATP and two other political movements. The organization was headed by the leaders of its three components; Gozman became the co-chair. A year after its creation, the new party took part in municipal elections, but did not receive voter support. Unlike Titov, a member of the same party who advocates an alliance with Yabloko, the politician defended the opinion of the independent development of Just Cause. He did not allow unification, because the two parties for many years were competitors in the political arena.
The politician showed himself vividly in the pre-election debates on television and on the air of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, although he did not win in any of them. Themes discussed the most diverse: the national question, the war and Stalinist repression, foreign policy and musical predilections. Many opponents touched on the biography of the politician, Jewish roots, he was accused of trying to make the country a Western "economic appendage." All this was reflected in the opinion of voters. The success of the 2011 elections was not significant, Gozman said that "this election cycle has been completely lost" and left the "Just Cause".
At the same time, Leonid supported Chubais’s words about the insolvency of the “Union of Right Forces” as a political movement and proposed to continue its activities as a public organization. The Renaissance Initiative found support from like-minded ATP people who did not want to join new organizations.
In 2009, Gozman advocated the resignation of the mayor of Luzhkov. In 2015, after the death of Boris Nemtsov, the politician promised to deal with the perpetrators.
Personal life
The celebrity hides information about his personal life from the press and the public. It is known that the family Leonid created at the dawn of his political career. Daughter Olga is an entrepreneur and public figure. Leonid Yakovlevich twice became a grandfather.
Gozman is a wealthy man. A few years ago, he indicated in his declaration an annual income of 13 million rubles. He owns the land and assets of leading Russian enterprises.
