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Constantine Pleshakov

Author of The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga

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Constantine Pleshakov is a visiting professor at Mount Holyoke College

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La guerra ruso-japonesa (2016) — Contributor — 2 copies

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Birthdate
1959-09-18
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Russia (birth)
Places of residence
Moscow, Russia, USSR
Singapore
USA
Education
Moscow State University (1982)
Soviet Academy of Sciences (Ph.D. ∙ 1986)
National University of Singapore
Occupations
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies and Critical Social Thought
Relationships
Zubok, Vladislav (co-author)
Organizations
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA
Awards and honors
Lionel Gelber Prize (with Vladislav Zubok), 1996, for Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev
Short biography
Professor Pleshakov has been teaching at Mount Holyoke since 1998, and in 2012 was named one of Princeton Review’s 300 Best College Professors. He is the author of numerous books, including There Is No Freedom Without Bread! 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism, Stalin’s Folly: The First Ten Tragic Days of World War Two on the Eastern Front, and The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga.

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If you’re new to the late Romanovs this book may be a little dense: so many Grand Dukes to keep track of! But if you’ve read several books & know the last 2 generations of the family fairly well, this book is like the richest of chocolate cakes: deliciously dense & full of nothing but goodness. There are amazing, gossipy stories on nearly every other page that fill in so many relationship subtleties (did you know Princess Paley hated Dmitri? Me neither!). This book also brings to life obscurer members of the family that maybe you’ve read of but find hard to place in the family tree. Now, for instance, I know exactly where Uncle Bimbo & Nikolasha belong & I know enough about them that they feel like individuals to me.

The major Romanovs are here too, of course: Nicky, Alex, Minnie, etc., but it’s the material on the lesser known family members that makes this book unlike any Romanov history I’ve read. Highly recommend if you know a bit about the family; don’t recommend as your first or second book on them (probably too confusing).
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susanbooks | 3 other reviews | Dec 23, 2023 |
Didn't know anything about this before picking the book up at a sale. I've read a lot of Russian history before, but it was mostly about what was going on in St Petersburg. Learned a lot. I also learned a lot about naval operations. Very interesting book!
 
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spounds | 2 other reviews | Jul 19, 2020 |
A brief overall history of the Romanov Dynasty in Russia before the Revolution in 1917. The family history is outlined very well, and each family member and their relationships with one another is profiled. Parts are a little bland, but for an overview, I thought the story was conveyed well.
 
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choochtriplem | 3 other reviews | Aug 15, 2014 |
Good book. Well written with a lot of information. Good addition to Romanov books for those who are into such and a good intro for those more casual readers.
 
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Whiskey3pa | 3 other reviews | Nov 28, 2011 |

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