Sean McMeekin (born May 10, 1974 in Idaho ) is an American historian. Research interests: recent history of Germany , history of Russia , communism and the First World War .
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The early years
The early years he spent in Rochester (pc. New York) . He studied history at Stanford University ( bachelor 's degree , 1996) and Berkeley ( Master's , 1998; PhD , 2001). Trained in Paris , Berlin and Moscow . He completed postdoctoral studies at Yale University and was a research fellow at the Remark Institute at New York University .
Teacher career
He began teaching as an assistant at the Center for Russian Studies at in Ankara [1] and at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities in Istanbul . For 2017, he is a professor of history at Bard College in New York, USA.
Main research interests: recent history of Germany , history of Russia , communism and the First World War . He is the author of a number of books. Scientific articles and essays have been published in journals such as and .
Family
Married, has two children.
Prizes
- 2010: Norman B. Tomlinson Jr. Award (Norman B. Tomlinson Jr.) for The Russian Origins of the First World War
- 2011: Barbara Jelavich Award for The Berlin-Baghdad Express
- 2015: Arthur Goodzeit Award for The Ottoman Endgame
- 2016: Erich and Emma Cronauer Prize for historical research.
scientific papers
- The Red Millionaire. A Political Biography of Willi Münzenberg, Moscow's Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West . Yale University Press , New Haven 2003, ISBN 0-300-09847-2 .
- History's Greatest Heist. The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks . Yale University Press , New Haven 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-13558-9 .
- The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , Cambridge 2010, ISBN 978-0-674-05739-5 .
- The Russian Origins of the First World War . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , Cambridge 2011, ISBN 978-0-674-06210-8 .
- July 1914: Countdown to War . Basic Books, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-465-03145-0 .
- The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908–1923 . Penguin Press , New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-59420-532-3 .
- In Russian
- “Lenin enters the scene” (in the collection by Anthony Brenton. Historical Inevitability? Key Events of the Russian Revolution (Collection of articles) = Tony Brenton. Historically Inevitable ?: Turning Points of the Russian Revolution. - M .: Alpina non-fiction , 2017. - 414 p. - ISBN 978-5-91671-757-0 . , P. 122)