Yevgeny Tarle

Yevgeny Viktorovich Tarle (Russian: Евгений Викторович Тарле; 27 October [O.S. 8 November ] 1874 – 6 January 1955) was a Soviet historian, Marxist scholar, and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who studied and published on topics such as the Napoleonic invasion of Russia and the Crimean War. Much of his work dealt with themes of Marxist historiography, imperialism, and Russian nationalism. Tarle spent much of his professional life disagreeing with state authorities over his scholarship and was also a founder of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Russia's diplomatic university).