Slezkin, Lev Yuryevich

Born June 17, 1920 in Vladikavkaz (now North Ossetia). The son of writer Yuri Lvovich Slezkin and actress Angelina Ivanovna Zhdanovich (1899 ^[1] or 1900 ^[2] —1979).

In 1939 he entered the Moscow Law Institute , but was soon drafted into the Red Army . Member of World War II , was seriously injured. Foreman of the armored forces. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1944. After demobilization, he graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University , then graduate school (under the guidance of Professor A. S. Yerusalimsky ^[3] ). In 1952 he defended his thesis “Imperialist policy of the United States in South America during the years of the global economic crisis (1929-1933)”.

He worked at the Institute of Economics , since 1961 - the scientific secretary of ILAAN . In 1965 he defended his doctoral dissertation. Then he worked at IVIAN .

He was sent twice to Cuba ^[3] .

The works of L. Yu. Slezkin are devoted to the new history of Latin America and the USA. Several monographs explore the history of North America in the 17th century.

He died on April 7, 2012 in Moscow.

• Wife - Karma Moiseevna Goldstein (1933-2011), daughter of the Argentine Bundists Moses Khatskelevich Goldstein who emigrated to the USSR (? —1943, died at the front) and Berta (Brochi) Iosifovna Kostrinskaya ^[4] ; her younger sister Flora was married to a sociologist I.N. Golomshtok ^[5] .
  • Son - Yuri Lvovich Slezkin (born 1956), American historian.

• Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1997)
• Order of the Red Banner (03.28.1943)
• Order of the Red Star (13.2.1944)
• Order of the Patriotic War I degree (6.4.1985)
• medals

• The Spanish-American War of 1898. - M.: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1956. - 134 p., 1 p. kart.
• Russia and the War of Independence in Spanish America . - M .: Nauka, 1964 .-- 383 p.
• History of the Cuban Republic . - M .: Nauka, 1966 .-- 468 p., 5 p. Portr., cards.
• The formation of independent states in Latin America (1804-1903). - M .: Education , 1966 .-- 243 p. - In soavt. with M.S. Alperovich .
• Land of the Holy Cross: discovery and conquest of Brazil . - M .: Nauka, 1970 .-- 158 p.
• The new history of Latin America. - M.: Higher School, 1970. - 384 p. + 4 l. kart. - In soavt. with M.S. Alperovich.
• At the origins of American history: Virginia . New Plymouth (1606-1642). - M .: Nauka, 1978.- 335 p., 2 p. kart.
• At the origins of American history: Massachusetts . Maryland (1630-1642). - M .: Nauka, 1980. - 337, [6] p., 1 p. kart.
• Legend, utopia, past in early American history. - M .: Nauka, 1981. - 160 p., 4 p. silt - ( Countries and peoples ).
• At the origins of American history: Virginia and Maryland during the English Revolution (1642-1660). - M .: Nauka, 1989 .-- 348 p. - ISBN 5-02-008956-7 .
• At the origins of American history: Roger Williams , 1603–1683. - M .: Nauka, 1993 .-- 266 p. - ISBN 5-02-010144-3 .
• Before the war and in the war. - M .: Parade, 2009. - 517, [1] p. - ISBN 978-5-8061-0141-0 .

Yu. L. Slezkin dedicated his book “Brusilov” to his son.

Here is how L. Y. Slezkina describes his peer and also the historian A. Nekrich :

Leva's mother was once an actress, and from his parents he inherited a very delicate nervous organization and emotional reaction. During the war, Leva Slezkin was a tank commander, and during a tank attack in a burning tank he lost one eye. Since then, he walked with a black bandage on his face, and this bandage went very much to his thin figure and slightly elongated face. In all his guise there was something romantic, and indeed he was a romantic by nature ^[3] .

• Koval B.I. On the anniversary of Lev Yuryevich Slezkin // New and recent history . - 2010. - No. 3. - S. 250—251.
• Koval B.I. In memory of Lev Yuryevich Slezkin // New and recent history. - 2012. - No. 4. - S. 216.