Boris Sokolov

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Boris Sokolov (Russian: Борис Вадимович Соколов) is a historian and a Russian literature researcher (has Candidate of Science degree in both fields). In 1979 he graduated the department of geography of the Moscow State University, specialising in economic geography. His works have been translated into Polish, Latvian and Estonian. He has also translated literary works from various languages.[1]

During the Soviet times, he worked at the Institute of World Literature, currently he is a professor of social anthropology at State Social University of Russia [2]. He has written numerous monographies, e.g on Gogol, Sergei Esenin, and Bulgakov (Sokolov was the editor of the Bulgakov Encyclopedia, published in 1996).

From 1990s on, he has turned to subjects on Russian 20th century history, publishing studies on Beria, Stalin, Molotov and Brezhnev. He is one of the Russian historians alongside those who are critically reviewing the part of the Soviet Union in the Second World War.[3]

[edit] Bibliography

  • Б. В. Соколов Булгаков. Энциклопедия. Алгоритм, 2003. ISBN 5-320-00143-6
  • Б. В. Соколов Вторая мировая. Факты и версии ISBN 5-462-00445-1
  • Б. В. Соколов Оккупация. Правда и мифы Мoscow, АСТ, 2002. online version)
  • Третий Рейх. Мифы и действительность Эксмо, Яуза, 2005
  • Б.В. Соколов Правда о Великой Отечественной войне (Сборник статей). — СПб.: Алетейя, 1999 (online text)
  • Соколов Б.В. Неизвестный Жуков: портрет без ретуши в зеркале эпохи. (Unknown Zhukov by B.V. Sokolov) — Мн.: Родиола-плюс, 2000 — 608 с. («Мир в войнах»). ISBN 985-448-036-4. (online text)
    • Sokolov, B.V.: World War II Revisited: Did Stalin Intend to Attack Hitler?- In: Journal of Slavic Military Studies 11 (1998), H. 2, S. 113-141

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.prognosis.ru/news/authors/22.html
  2. ^ http://www.rgsu.net/fakultet/soz_inform/kafanthropology/index.shtml
  3. ^ http://militera.lib.ru/research/sokolov1/index.html

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