Albert Resis (December 16, 1921 – March 10, 2021) was an American academic and writer in the field of Russian history. He worked as a professor of history at

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from 1964 to 1992, and then as a

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from 1992. He was the author of the books ''Stalin, the Politburo and the Onset of the Cold War: 1945-1946'' (1988) and '' Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics'', together with Russian author Felix Chuev (1993). He was also the main author of a number of articles in

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on Russian and Soviet history. Resis died in

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, in March 2021, at the age of 99.Albert Resis obituary
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