Brian J. Boeck is an American historian. He obtained his doctorate in
Russian history
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from
Harvard University
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, and now teaches Russian and
Soviet history
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at
DePaul University
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in Chicago. His biography of the Soviet writer
Mikhail Sholokhov
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov ( rus, Михаил Александрович Шолохов, p=ˈʂoləxəf; – 21 February 1984) was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life ...
was published to critical acclaim and was nominated for the 2020
Pushkin Book Prize
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.
Review
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American historians
DePaul University faculty
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
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