William Taubman

About The Author

William Taubman is Bertrand Snell Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Amherst College. His 2003 book, Khrushchev: The Man and his Era, won both the Pulitzer Prize for biography and the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography in 2004. Taubman has been the President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and chairs the Advisory Committee of the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington.

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Books by William Taubman

Gorbachev

His Life and Times

By William Taubman

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era, the most comprehensive portrait of the former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on 30 August 2022.

'A phenomenally researched life...

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Khrushchev

The Man And His Era

By William Taubman

‘Taubman delivers a political and biographical tour de force, something approaching a definitive work' Simon Sebag-Montefiore, The Financial Times

‘Outstanding, superbly gripping and surely definitive’ Daily Telegraph

'Taubman has produced an utte...

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