On March 21, 2011, Elena Ionovna Mironova, an African scientist, Candidate of Economic Sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences, passed away. E. I. Mironova was born in 1927 in Moscow. In 1952, she graduated from the Potemkin Moscow City Pedagogical Institute with a degree in teaching French. After several years of teaching a foreign language and working as a methodologist, Elena Ionovna's entire career was inextricably linked with African studies: she worked at the Institute of Africa from 1961 to 2007. The initial period of this work consisted mainly of studying the States of West Africa. Then E. I. Mironova's scientific activity became more and more focused on the regional problems of the Arab countries of North Africa, first of all the Maghreb states and first of all Algeria, which remained in the center of the researcher's scientific interests until the last years of his life. In 1972 Elena Ionovna successfully defended her dissertation "Economic policy of independent Algeria". Earlier, and especially in the future, she devoted dozens of publications to the problems of this country-political, social and economic: These are monographs, academic reference publications and encyclopedic articles, publications in scientific periodicals, and many analytical materials for various institutions and organizations. The subject matter of these studies is extremely diverse. Elena Mironova's undoubted talent, broad erudition and vast experience allowed her to analyze in depth most aspects of the complex modern history, not only of Algeria, but also of other North African states during the period of independence. With constant success, she was able to study in detail regional socio-economic reforms (mainly agrarian transformations), analyze political processes, for example, the causes and consequences of the activation of Islamist movements, and create accurate and vivid portraits of major state and public figures, primarily fr ... Читать далее