Yuri Slezkine

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). Provided by Wikipedia