Dr Harold Shukman

With a BA in Russian Language and Literature from Nottingham University (1956), Dr Harold Shukman (University Lecturer in Modern Russian History 1969-1998, and Director of the Russian Centre 1981-1991) entered the College as a Senior Scholar in 1958. In 1960 he completed his D.Phil. on Russian-Jewish revolutionary history and spent the next academic year as an Astor Fellow at Harvard and Stanford, during which time he was elected a Junior Research Fellow at St Antony's, where, with further breaks in the USA, he was a Fellow until his retirement in 1998.

His books include Lenin and the Russian Revolution (1967), Rasputin(1997), The Russian Revolution (1998), Stalin (1999) and War or Revolution (2006) an account of the conscription of Russian Jewish refugees in Britain in 1917. His edited books include The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution (1988), Stalin's Generals (1993), Agents for Change: Intelligence Services in the 21st Century (2000), Stalin and the Soviet-Finnish War, 1939-40 (2002), and Redefining Stalinism (2003). He translated Anatoly Rybakov's Heavy Sand (1981) and Children of the Arbat (1988); edited and translated the memoirs of Andrei Gromyko (1989), and Dmitri Volkogonov's books on Stalin (1991), Lenin (1994) and Trotsky (1996); in collaboration with Max Hayward and Michael Glenny, he translated plays by Isaac Babel and Evgenii Shvarts (1965); with former Warden, William Deakin, and the late Harry Willetts he wrote A History of World Communism (1975), and with Geoffrey Elliott co-authored Secret Classrooms (2002). In 2006 he published War or Revolution: Russian Jews and Conscription in Britain, 1917, based on a chapter of his father's life. With Felix Patrikeeff in 2007 he published Railways and the Russo-Japanese War: Transporting War, (Routledge).

Contact: Telephone +44 1865 554147

Email: harold.shukman@sant.ox.ac.uk