Shukman, Harold

Born in 1931 in London in a family of emigrants from Russia ^[2] David and Maria Shukman ^[3] .

In 1951-1953, he served in the Royal Air Force of Great Britain as a translator from the Russian language and rose to the rank of sergeant .

In 1956 he graduated from the University of Nottingham , where in 1958 he became a senior research fellow.

In 1960, he received a doctorate in history from the University of Oxford for a dissertation on the Bund and spent a year as a postdoctoral student at Harvard and Stanford University . In the same year, he was elected a junior research fellow at the College of St. Anthony Oxford University, where he worked until 1998 and was elected an honorary member.

In 1969 - 1998 he taught at the College of St. Anthony.

In 1981 - 1991 - Director of the Russian Center at Oxford University.

He was a research fellow at Harvard and Stanford Universities ^[1] . Over the years, he taught the Russian language course for Masters at Oxford University.

He died of cancer at the age of 81. The funeral was held on July 13, 2012 at the Volverkot cemetery. ^[four]

Book Author

1. Lenin and the Russian Revolution (1967, 1968)
2. Lenin's path to power bolshevism and the destiny of Russia (1971)
3. Harold Shuckman, William Deakin, Harry Willets . A History of World Communism (1975)
4. Lenin and the Russian Revolution (1977)
5. Roy Medvedev and Harold Shukman . All Stalin's Men (1985)
6. AA Gromyko and Harold Shukman . Memories (1989)
7. Dmitri Volkogonov and Harold Shukman . Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy (1991)
8. Dmitri Volkogonov and Harold Shukman . Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy (1995)
9. John Reed and Harold Shukman . Ten Days That Shook the World (1997)
10. Rasputin. - 1997. - 113 p. ISBN 978-0-7509-1529-8 .
11. The Russian Revolution (1998)
12. Stalin (1999)
13. Harold Shukman, Geoffrey Elliott . Secret Classrooms (2002)
14. EN Kulkov, Oleg Aleksandrovich Rzheshevskii and Harold Shukman . Stalin and the Soviet-Finnish War, 1939-1940 (2002)
15. Redefining Stalinism (2003)
16. Secret Classrooms: An Untold Story of the Cold War (2006)
17. War or Revolution: Russian Jews and Conscription in Britain, 1917 (2006)
18. Railways and the Russo-Japanese War: Transporting War (2007)
19. Rasputin: An Introduction (2009)
20. Geoffrey Elliott and Harold Shukman. Secret Classrooms: An Untold Story of the Cold War (2011)
21. Agents for Change. ISBN 0-9536151-9-7 .

1. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution, Basil Blackwell (New York, NY), 1988.
2. Stalin's Generals, Grove Press (New York, NY) ^[5] (1993)
3. Lenin: Life and legacy (1995)
4. Agents for Change: Intelligence Services in the 21st Century (2000)
5. Stalin's Generals, Grove Press (New York, NY) (2002)
6. Stalin and the Soviet-Finnish War, 1939-40 (2002)
7. Redefining Stalinism (2003)
8. Agents for Change: Intelligence Services in the 21st Century (2004)

1. Anatoly Rybakov . Heavy Sand (1981)
2. Anatoly Rybakov . Children of the Arbat (1988)
3. Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev . China and the Super Powers.
4. Together with Max Hayward and Michael Glenny translated the plays of Isaac Babel and Eugene Schwartz (1965)

1. Andrei Gromyko . Memoirs (1989)
2. Dmitri Volkogonov . Stalin (1991)
3. Dmitri Volkogonov . Lenin (1994)
4. Dmitri Volkogonov . Trotsky (1996)

• Archie Brown, professor emeritus of political science at Oxford University, considers Shukman “an excellent linguist,” “an inspiring teacher,” and noted that “He created excellent translations of the books of General Dmitry Volkogonov” ^[1] .

• The son is David Shukman .

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