William Taubman
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William Chase Taubman is an American
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 political scientist. His biography
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 of Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964...

 won the Pulitzer Prize
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 for biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award
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 for Biography in 2003.

He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science
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 and received a B.A. from Harvard University
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 in 1962; an M.A. from Columbia University
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 in 1965; a Certificate of the Russian Institute, 1965; and Ph.D., Columbia University, 1969.

He is currently Bertrand Snell
Bertrand Snell
Bertrand Hollis Snell represented the state of New York in the United States House of Representatives.- Early life :Snell was born in Colton, New York, the son of Hollis Snell, a lumberman, and Flora E. Kimball...

 Professor of Political Science at Amherst College
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. His wife, Jane A. Taubman, is a professor of Russian at Amherst College.

He was the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim fellowship
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.

He is the brother of diplomatic journalist Philip Taubman.

Selected publications

  • Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (W. W. Norton & Company, 2003), ISBN 0-393-05144-7.
  • Moscow Spring with Jane Taubman (Summit Books, 1989), ISBN 0-671-67731-4.
  • Stalin's American Policy: From Entente to Détente to Cold War (W W Norton & Company, 1982), ISBN 0-393-01406-1.
  • Khrushchev and Khrushchev by Sergei Khrushchev, (editor/translator). (Boston: Little, Brown, 1990)

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