Yuri Slezkine
Yuri Slezkine is Jane K. Sather Professor of History at University California Berkley Department of History.
Professor Slexkine has published six books covering Russia, Soviet Union and Siberia.
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution(link is external) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)
The Jewish Century(link is external) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).
In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War(link is external), edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Yuri Slezkine (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000).
Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North(link is external) (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994).
"The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism," Slavic Review 53, no. 2 (Summer 1994): 414-452.
Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture, ed. by Galya Diment and Yuri Slezkine (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993).
Research Interests
Late Modern Europe: Russia
- Education
MA, University of Moscow - PhD, University of Texas, Austin
