Harold Shukman
British historian
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- PhD History University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Harold Shukman was a British historian, specialising in the history of Russia. Shukman was born in London to a family of Jewish immigrants escaping from the Russian Empire. His father, David Shukman, whose first name he gave to his first born son David Shukman, was part of the Jewish community who lived in Baranow, Congress Poland, before emigrating and settling in the United Kingdom. After college and national service, he took the Russian course at the Joint Services School for Linguists, in Cambridge and Bodmin, Cornwall. Afterwards, he went on to study Russian and Serbo-Croat at the University of Nottingham, gaining a first-class degree. He received his PhD from Oxford University, his topic being the Jewish Labour Bund. Having completed his doctorate in 1960, he took up an academic career at Oxford where he eventually became the director of the Russian centre at St Antony's College. He retired in 1998.
Harold Shukman's Published Works
Published Works
- Lenin: A New Biography (1994) (22)
- Railways and the Russo-Japanese War: Transporting War (2007) (19)
- Trotsky : The Eternal Revolutionary (1992) (16)
- The British political elite and the Soviet Union, 1937-1939 (2013) (12)
- Lenin and the Russian Revolution (1966) (11)
- China and the superpowers (1986) (11)
- Stalin's Generals (1993) (8)
- Autopsy For An Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime (1998) (7)
- The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution (1994) (6)
- Stalin and the Soviet-Finnish War, 1939-1940 (2002) (5)
- Sons of the moon (1990) (5)
- War or revolution : Russian Jews and conscription in Britain, 1917 (2006) (5)
- A history of world communism (1975) (5)
- The making of three Russian revolutionaries: Voices from the Menshevik past (1989) (4)
- Lenin's path to power: Bolshevism and the destiny of Russia, (1971) (3)
- War on ice (2007) (3)
- Jewish Socialist Movements 1871-1917. (1979) (2)
- Travels with my trombone : a Caribbean journey (1993) (2)
- New Books on the Revolution: Old Wine in New Bottles@@@Lenin and the Russian Revolution@@@The Unfinished Revolution@@@The Triumph of Bolshevism: Revolution or Reaction?@@@The Revolutionary Personality: Lenin, Trotsky and Gandhi (1967) (2)
- Stalin Old and New@@@Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy@@@Stalin: Breaker of Nations@@@The Stalin Phenomenon (1995) (1)
- The railway and hostilities (2007) (0)
- Mortimer of the Maghreb (2011) (0)
- Russian context and Manchurian setting (2007) (0)
- Travels With My Trombone (1992) (0)
- On the hills of Manchuria (2007) (0)
- Three Soviet Plays (1967) (0)
- War or Revolution (2006) (0)
- Introduction (2003) (0)
- A Surviving Russian Modernist@@@The Holy Well (1971) (0)
- The relations between the Jewish Bund and the RSDRP, 1897-1903 (1961) (0)
- New Year Train (2001) (0)
- Salin and the women (1993) (0)
- Writers at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival (2003) (0)
- Railways and empire (2007) (0)
- Horses at Christmas (2000) (0)
- Call Them Harry (1999) (0)
- The railway and the war (2007) (0)
- Revisionism: Essays on the History of Marxist Ideas, The First Russian Revisionists: A Study of ‘Legal Marxism’ in Russia, Polycentrism: The New Factor in International Communism and Libres Essais Marxistes (1964) (0)
- [Book Reviews] (1960) (0)
- Letter to readers (2000) (0)
- The Venice Faxes (2000) (0)
- An analysis of Soviet Jewish emigration in the 1970s (1986) (0)
- The dawn of modern conflict (2007) (0)
- Khrushchev@@@All Stalin's Men (1985) (0)
- Sons of the moon : travels among the South American Indians (1991) (0)
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