Eleonory Gilburd is an American historian. She studied at the
University of Chicago and at
UC Berkeley. She specializes in the history and culture of modern Russia and the
Soviet Union, especially the era of the
Khrushchev Thaw
The Khrushchev Thaw ( rus, хрущёвская о́ттепель, r=khrushchovskaya ottepel, p=xrʊˈɕːɵfskəjə ˈotʲ:ɪpʲɪlʲ or simply ''ottepel'')William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, London: Free Press, 2004 is the period ...
. Her first book ''To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture'' (Harvard, 2018) received critical acclaim and was nominated for the
Pushkin Book Prize. It also won a number of academic prizes in the field of
Slavic studies
Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was prim ...
.
References
21st-century American historians
American women historians
University of Chicago alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
{{US-historian-stub