Donald J. Raleigh is an American scholar specializing in twentieth-century

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n history. He is the Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor of History at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC–Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public university, public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolli ...

. He obtained his BA degree from Knox College in 1971, followed by MA and PhD degrees from Indiana University Bloomington. He has written extensively on the

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, on local history (including two books on the

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region), and on Soviet

oral history Oral history is the collection and study of historical information from people, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. These interviews are conducted with people who pa ...

. He edited the scholarly journal ''Soviet (Russian) Studies in History'' and the monograph series ''The New Russian History''. More recently, he has researched the life and times of Soviet leader

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. His 2011 book ''Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia’s Cold War Generation'' was nominated for the Pushkin House Book Award.

Selected works

*''Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia’s Cold War Generation'' (Oxford University Press, 2011) *''Russia’s Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk about Their Lives'' (Indiana University Press, 2006) *''Experiencing Russia’s Civil War: Politics, Society, and Revolutionary Culture in Saratov, 1917–1922'' (Princeton University Press, 2002) *''Provincial Landscapes: Local Dimensions of Soviet Power'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001) *''Revolution on the Volga: 1917 in Saratov'' (Cornell University Press, 1986)

References

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