Constantine Pleshakov

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Constantine Viktorovich Pleshakov ( Russian Константин Викторович Плешаков ; transcribed Konstantin Viktorovich Pleschakow ; born September 18, 1959 in Yalta , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Soviet- American political scientist and author .

Life

Pleshakov was born in 1959 as the son of an engineer in Yalta in the Crimea .

From 1980 to 1981 he learned Mandarin at the National University of Singapore . Pleshakov then studied Chinese history at the Lomonossow University in Moscow until 1982 and was nominated as a candidate in 1983 with a thesis on “Perception of the People's Republic of China in the USA after the Second World War” . From 1980 to 1996 he worked initially as a junior researcher, later as a senior researcher and finally as head of the Moscow Institute for USA and Canada Studies. In 1995 he received his PhD in Political Science with a thesis on "Geopolitics and Ideology in Relations between the United States and China in Continental East Asia 1949-1991". In 1996 he was a Fellow of the Norwegian Nobel Institute .

Pleshakov wrote several novels, short stories and non-fiction books on topics such as the history of the Romanovs or the sea ​​battle at Tsushima . For the nonfiction book Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev , he was awarded the Lionel Gelber Prize in 1996 together with Vladislav Zubok .

In 1998 Constantine Pleshakov emigrated to the United States , where he taught as a visiting professor at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley and at Amherst College in Amherst . He holds lectures on history, international relations, political science and Russian and Eurasian history.

Pleshakov has a daughter and a son and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Works (selection)

  • with Vladislav Zubok: Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, ISBN 978-0674455313 .
  • with John Curtis Perry: The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga . Basic Books, New York, New York, 1999, ISBN 978-0465024629 .
  • The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Voyage to the Battle of Tsushima . Basic Books, New York, New York, 2002, ISBN 978-0465057917 .
  • Stalin's Folly: The first ten days of World War II on the Russian Front . Houghton Mifflin, New York, New York, 2005, ISBN 978-0618367016 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Константин Плешаков . In: livelib.ru, accessed March 15, 2019.
  2. ^ Former fellows . In: nobelpeaceprize.org, accessed March 15, 2019.
  3. ↑ 1996 Lionel Gelber Prize . In: munkschool.utoronto.ca, accessed March 15, 2019.
  4. ↑ Constantine Pleshakov . In: amherst.edu, accessed March 15, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Pleshakov, Constantine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pleshakov, Constantine Viktorovich (full name); Pleschakow, Konstantin Wiktorowitsch; Плешаков, Константин Викторович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-American political scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Yalta , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union