Vladislav Zubok

Prof. V. Zubok

Vladislav Zubok (Владислав Мартинович Зубок; born 1958) is professor of international history at the London School of Economics. Zubok is a specialist in the history of the Cold War and 20th century Russia.^[1]

Career

Zubok earned his undergraduate degree at Moscow State University and his PhD at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies in Moscow.^[1]

Zubok became a fellow at the National Security Archive, a non-government organization at the George Washington University in 1994. He has been a visiting professor at Amherst College, Ohio University, Stanford University, and the University of Michigan, and in 2004 he became a tenured professor at Temple University.^[1]

Zubok is a senior fellow of The Hertog Program in Grand Strategy at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.^[2]

Selected publications

• Inside the Kremlin's Cold War, From Stalin to Krushchev. Harvard University Press, 1996.
• A Failed Empire: the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
• Zhivago's Children: the Last Russian Intelligentsia. Harvard University Press, 2009.
• Masterpieces of History: A Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989. Central European University Press, 2010. (editor with Svetlana Savranskaia and Thomas Blanton)
• Società totalitarie e transizione alla democrazia. il Mulino, Bologna, 2011. (Editor with Tommaso Piffer).
• Дмитрий Лихачев. Жизнь и век. Вита-Нова, 2016.

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