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Vladislav Zubok (Владислав Мартинович Зубок; born 16 April 1958) is professor of international history at the
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and a Head of the Russia International Affairs Programme at LSE IDEAS. Zubok is a specialist in the history of the
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and 20th century
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, who wrote such books as ''A Failed Empire: the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (2007)'' and ''Zhivago’s Children: the Last Russian Intelligentsia (2009)''.Professor Vladislav Zubok.
London School of Economics. Retrieved 22 June 2015.


Early life

He was born and educated in Moscow. He received his undergraduate degree at
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in 1980, and his PhD at the Institute for the US and Canada in 1985.Dr. Vladislav Zubok
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Career

Zubok became a fellow at the
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, a non-government organization at the
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from 1994 till 2001. He has been a visiting professor at
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,
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,
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, and the
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, and in 2004 he became a tenured professor at
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. He also was a director of the Russian and East European Document Database Project of the National Security Archive,
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and Cold War International History Project,
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, Washington D.C., funded by
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, where he created an English language catalogue of newly available documentation from 1996 till 2001. Zubok is a senior fellow of The Hertog Program in Grand Strategy at the
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.Vladislav Zubok.
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For his books he received the
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and the Marshall Shulman Prize of the
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. He has also received grants from the
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,
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, the Yeltsin Center and the Russkiy Mir Foundation. He was a consultant on documentary series such as CNN's twenty-four part series ''
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'' first broadcast in 1998.


Selected publications

*''Inside the Kremlin's Cold War, From Stalin to Krushchev''.
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, 1996. , *
A Failed Empire: the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
'.
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, 2007. *''Zhivago's Children: the Last Russian Intelligentsia''.
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, 2009. , *''Masterpieces of History: A Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989''.
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, 2010. (editor with Svetlana Savranskaia and Thomas Blanton) *''Società totalitarie e transizione alla democrazia''. il Mulino, Bologna, 2011. (Editor with Tommaso Piffer). *''Дмитрий Лихачев. Жизнь и век''. Вита-Нова, 2016. *''The idea of Russia: the life and work of Dmitry Likhachev'', London; New York: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017. , * "The Making of a Russian Cold War Historian during the Last Years of the Soviet Union" (Nov. 2021
online
autobiography *''Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union''.
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, 2021.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zubok, Vladislav Academics of the London School of Economics Living people Writers from Moscow Moscow State University alumni 20th-century Russian historians University of Michigan staff 1958 births 21st-century Russian historians