Yuri Slezkine is a Russian-born American historian, writer, and translator. He is a professor of Russian history and Director of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017).
The Jewish Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).
In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War, edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Yuri Slezkine (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000).
Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994).
The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism, Slavic Review 53, no. 2 (Summer 1994): 414-452.
Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture, ed. by Galya Diment and Yuri Slezkine (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993).
Videos and Interviews:
The Children of the Revolution (Recorded on 11/14/2014).
This Moses Lecture follows on Slezkine’s work as translator and co-editor, with Sheila Fitzpatrick, of “In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War” (2000), which reexamined the societal upheavals of those years through the lens of Soviet women’s autobiographical writings, oral testimonies and private documents. Series: “UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures”
Conversations With History (Recorded in October, 2007).
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Berkeley Professor Yuri Slezkine for a discussion of the Jewish odyssey in the 20th century. His comparative analysis focuses on the similarity of the Jews to other “Mercurians” and provides new insight into understanding the paths the Jews took amidst the chaos of the last century.
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