Vladislav M. Zubok | |
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Владислав М. Зубок | |
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| Born | (1958-04-16)April 16, 1958 (age 67) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Moscow State University Institute for US and Canadian Studies |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Cold War |
| Institutions | National Security Archive, Amherst College, Ohio University, Stanford University, University of Michigan, Temple University, Foreign Policy Research Institute, London School of Economics |
Vladislav Martinovich Zubok (Russian:Владислав Мартинович Зубок; born 16 April 1958) is a Russian academic and professor ofinternational history at theLondon School of Economics and a Head of the Сold War Studies Programme in the Department of International History. Zubok is a specialist in the history of theCold War and 20th centuryRussia, who wrote such books asA Failed Empire: the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (2007) andZhivago’s Children: the Last Russian Intelligentsia (2009).[1]
He was born and educated in Moscow. He received his undergraduate degree atMoscow State University in 1980, and his PhD at theInstitute for the US and Canada in 1985.[2]
Zubok became a fellow at theNational Security Archive, a non-government organization at theGeorge Washington University from 1994 till 2001. He has been a visiting professor atAmherst College,Ohio University,Stanford University, and theUniversity of Michigan, and in 2004 he became a tenured professor atTemple University.[1]
He also was a director of the Russian and East European Document Database Project of the National Security Archive,George Washington University and Cold War International History Project,Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., funded bySmith Richardson Foundation, where he created an English language catalogue of newly available documentation from 1996 till 2001.[3]
Zubok is a senior fellow ofThe Hertog Program in Grand Strategy at theForeign Policy Research Institute.[4]
For his books he received theLionel Gelber Prize and theMarshall Shulman Prize of theAssociation for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
He has also received grants from theMacArthur Foundation,Carnegie Corporation of New York, theYeltsin Center and theRusskiy Mir Foundation.[2]
He was a consultant on documentary series such asCNN's twenty-four part seriesCold War first broadcast in 1998.
