Yuri Slezkine

Yuri Slezkine
Slezkine in 2019.
Born
Yuri Lvovich Slezkine

(1956-02-07) February 7, 1956
Russia
EducationMoscow State University
University of Texas, Austin
OccupationsHistorian, translator
EmployerUniversity of California, Berkeley

Yuri Lvovich Slezkine (Russian: Ю́рий Льво́вич Слёзкин Yúriy L'vóvich Slyózkin; born February 7, 1956) is a Russian-born American historian and translator.

He was a professor of Russian history, Sovietologist, and served as Director of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004-2013.

He is best known as the author of the books The Jewish Century (2004) and The House of Government: A Saga of The Russian Revolution (2017).