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Mikhail Gorbachev is one of the most important figures of the 20th century.  A child of the Soviet Union, and a fast rising star in the Communist Party, Gorbachev was also a democratizer whose reforms led to the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.  William Taubman has authored the definitive biography of the last Soviet leader.  William Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, at Amherst College.  A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Nikita Khrushchev, he’s latest book is a biography of former Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev titled, simply, Gorbachev.

Watch the video here. William Taubman won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, a portrait of the Soviet leader ''unlikely to be surpassed any time soon in either richness or complexity'' (New York Times Book Review). The Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College, he is the author of several other works detailing 20th-century Russian politics. Drawing from international archival documents, interviews with foreign leaders, Kremlin contemporaries, and Gorbachev himself, Taubman's new biography is a nuanced look at the transformational leader. Yuri Slezkine is best known as the author of The Jewish Century, a boldly interpretive treatise about Jews' role in modernity. Jane K. Sather Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley and a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, he is also the author of several other books about the Soviet state, including In the Shadow of Revolution, Arctic Mirrors, and Between Heaven and Hell. In House of Government, Slezkine tells the epic of the massive apartment building occupied by high-ranking Communists until their annihilation during Stalin's purges. (recorded 9/26/2017)

William C. Taubman is currently the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. The son of a New York Times journalist who learned the importance of working hard and thinking carefully as well as to accept challenges, but not possible ones. In this episode we learn how Professor Taubman entered Harvard at only the age of 16. In his early career it was unclear if he might pursue journalism instead of academia. Even after he entered academia he almost ended up leaving the halls of learning for the CIA. As an academic, he considered how he could combine his interest in not only teaching but in research and writing. He worked long and hard to find a way to write scholarship that would be accessible to general readers. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003. CONNECT WITH PROFESSOR TAUBMAN William Taubman Books Faculty Website CONNECT WITH nine dots Email Geoffrey Website nine dots on Twitter nine dots on Instagram nine dots on LinkedIn nine dots on Facebook

William C. Taubman is currently the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. The son of a New York Times journalist who learned the importance of working hard and thinking carefully as well as to accept challenges, but not possible ones. In this episode we learn how Professor Taubman entered Harvard at only the age of 16. In his early career it was unclear if he might pursue journalism instead of academia. Even after he entered academia he almost ended up leaving the halls of learning for the CIA.  As an academic, he considered how he could combine his interest in not only teaching but in research and writing. He worked long and hard to find a way to write scholarship that would be accessible to general readers. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003. CONNECT WITH PROFESSOR TAUBMAN William Taubman Books Faculty Website CONNECT WITH nine dots Email Geoffrey Website nine dots on Twitter nine dots on Instagram nine dots on LinkedIn nine dots on Facebook

Hello and welcome to andallthat.co.uk’s new podcast series: Meet the Historians. Over the course of this first series I will be talking to a number of historians who have written about the Soviet Union and finding out a bit more about their historical methods and approaches. I will also be exploring their interpretations of key topics such as Stalin’s wartime leadership, the effectiveness of Khrushchev’s de-Stalinisation programme and the reasons for the breakup of the USSR. The series will be available to download here as a podcast, via the iTunes store, or on our website at www.andallthat.co.uk/meetthehistorians Today I am joined by Bill Taubman who is the emeritus Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Professor Taubman has written a number of books on the Soviet Union, including: 'Stalin’s American Policy,' and the critically acclaimed: 'Khrushchev, The Man and his Era.' He is also working on a biography of another Soviet politician in the Khrushchev mould, Mikhail Gorbachev. Feedback and comments on this series would be very welcome.