Yuri Slezkine
Yuri Slezkine | |
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Slezkine in 2019. | |
| Born | Yuri Lvovich Slezkine February 7, 1956 Russia |
| Education | Moscow State University University of Texas, Austin |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, translator |
| Employer | University of California, Berkeley |
Yuri Lvovich Slezkine (Russian: Ю́рий Льво́вич Слёзкин Yúriy L'vóvich Slyózkin; born February 7, 1956) is a Russian-born American historian and translator. He was a professor of Russian history, Sovietologist, and served as Director of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004-2013. He is best known as the author of the books The Jewish Century (2004) and The House of Government: A Saga of The Russian Revolution (2017).