Angelo de Oliveira Segrillo is a Brazilian historian specialized in Russia and in comparative studies of Russia, the West and Brazil. He holds a B.A. from Missouri State University, a master´s degree from the Pushkin Institute and a doctorate from Universidade Federal Fluminense. He is an associate professor of history at the University of Sao Paulo. Segrillo´s doctoral dissertation — published under the title O Declínio da URSS: um estudo das causas — was the first major Brazilian academic work using first-hand research into the formerly classified Soviet files. He analyzed the decline of the Soviet economy in its last decades not as a purely internal process, but as accompanying the changes in the world economy, which was moving from Fordist to Post-Fordist paradigms. The rigid, vertically oriented Soviet system had been competitive with the West in the decades when the Fordism was paramount. However, when flexible post-Fordist paradigms came along and set new rules for the game, the USSR started having problems of adaptation to these new requirements of flexibility. An abridged version of this argument can be seen in English in a short essay titled The Decline of the Soviet Union, Notable among other books written by Angelo Segrillo in Portuguese are Rússia e Brasil em Comparação and Rússia: Europa ou Ásia. 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. He also presented the first complete translation into English of Peter the Great´s original Table of Ranks in a 2016 paper. In 2020, three of the main books by A. Segrillo were translated into English: ', ', and .
Ontologiya i Ideal Sotsializma pri Lenine, Trotskom i Staline: tri spornykh voprosa. In: Abramson, I.G. et al. Sotsialisticheskii Ideal i Real´nyi Sotsialism: Lenin, Trotskii, Stalin. Moscow: LENAND, 2011.
. Alternativy, no. 4, pp. 131–139, 2010.
In French
Occidentalisme, Slavophilie et Eurasianisme: Les Intellectuels et lês Homes Politiques à la Recherche de L´indentité Russe. In: Modernités Nationales, Modernités Importées: entre Ancien et Nouveau Monde XIXe-XXIe Siècle. Paris: L´Harmattan, 2012.
Le Système Soviétique et la Modernité : quantifier la démocratie économique comme la démocratie libérale pour tenter un bilan comparatif. In: Modernités Alternatives: L´historien face aux discours et représentations de la modernité. Paris : L´Harmattan, 2009.
In Portuguese
Rússia: Europa ou Ásia? A questão da identidade russa nos debates entre ocidentalistas, eslavófilos e eurasianistas e suas consequências hoje na política da Rússia entre Ocidente e Oriente. Curitiba: Prismas, 2016.
De Gorbachev a Putin: a saga da Rússia do socialismo ao capitalismo. Curitiba: Prismas, 2015.
Ásia e Europa em Comparação Histórica: o debate entre eurocentrismo e asiocentrismo na história econômica comparada de Ásia e Europa. Curitiba: Prismas, 2014.
Os Russos. São Paulo: Contexto, 2012.
Rússia e Brasil em Transformação: uma breve história dos partidos russos e brasileiros na democratização política. Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, 2005.
Herdeiros de Lenin: a história dos partidos comunistas na Rússia pós-soviética. Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, 2003.
O Declínio da URSS: um estudo das causas. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2000.
