William Taubman
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William Taubman is an American historian. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003.
He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1962; an M.A. from Columbia University in 1965; a Certificate of the Russian Institute, 1965; and Ph.D., Columbia University, 1969.
He is currrently Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. His wife, Jane A. Taubman, is a professor of Russian at Amherst College.
[edit] Selected publications
- Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (W. W. Norton & Company, 2003), ISBN 0393051447.
- Moscow Spring with Jane Taubman (Summit Books, 1989), ISBN 0671677314.
- Stalin's American Policy: From Entente to Detente to Cold War (W W Norton & Company, 1982), ISBN 0393014061.
- Khrushchev and Khrushchev by Sergei Khrushchev, (editor/translator). (Boston: Little, Brown, 1990).
[edit] External link
- Faculty page at Amherst College
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