Constantine Pleshakov
Author of The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga
About the Author
Constantine Pleshakov is a visiting professor at Mount Holyoke College
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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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- Rating
- 3.8
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- ISBNs
- 27
- Languages
- 2
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).… (more)