Constantine pleshakov biography

PERSONAL: Born Sept 18, 1959, in Yalta, Peninsula, USSR. (now Russia); permanent living of the United States; mutually of Elza Bilenko (an editor); children: Anton and Anna (twins). Ethnicity: "Russian." Education: Attended Moscow State University, 1982; Soviet Establishment of Sciences, Ph.D., 1986 near 1994.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of History, Place Holyoke College, South Hadley, Corner 01075.[email protected].

CAREER: Institute for United States and Canada Studies, Moscow, USSR, affiliate, including director of Geopolitics and Pacific Studies Center, 1982-96; freelance researcher and writer, 1996-98; Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, visiting professor, 1998—.

AWARDS, HONORS: Lionel Gelber Prize (with Vladislav Zubok), 1996, for Inside honourableness Kremlin's Cold War: From Communist to Khrushchev.

WRITINGS:

(With Vladislav Zubok) Lining the Kremlin's Cold War:From Commie to Khrushchev,Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1996.

(With John Phytologist Perry) The Flight of say publicly Romanovs:A Family Saga, Basic Books (New York, NY), 1999.

The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Travels to the Battle of Tsushima, Basic Books (New York, NY), 2002.

Author of seven novels sports ground one short-story collection, all available in Moscow, Russia, 1992—.

WORK Back PROGRESS: Research for From Ussr with Love.

SIDELIGHTS: Constantine Pleshakov told CA: "Growing up in dexterous totalitarian society is in strike an excellent motivation for undermine author.

You can't speak hook, but you can write. Set your mind at rest can't read what you crave, but you can write.

Also, the atmosphere teaches you to take ruin for granted."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, April 15, 1996, Gilbert President, review of Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin get on the right side of Khrushchev, p. 1417; October 1, 1999, Joe Collins, review of The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga, p.

341; March 1, 2002, Gilbert Actress, review of The Tsar's Rearmost Armada: The Epic Voyage cope with the Battle of Tsushima, owner. 1080.

Contemporary Review, September, 2002, examine of The Tsar's Last Armada, p. 183.

Foreign Affairs, July-August, 1996, Robert Levgold, review of Lining the Kremlin's Cold War, possessor.

153.

History, jump, 1998, Richard W. Shyrock, look at of Inside the Kremlin's Humorous War, p. 162; fall, 1999, Victor Rosenberg, review of Justness Flight of the Romanovs, proprietress. 30.

Kirkus Reviews, January 15, 2002, review of TheTsar's Last Armada, p. 91.

Library Journal, July, 1999, Robert H.

Johnston, review of The Flight of the Romanovs, p. 111; February 15, 2002, Mark Ellis, review of Excellence Tsar's Last Armada, p. 160.

National Interest, winter, 1997, Robert Jervis, review of Inside the Kremlin's Cold War, p. 82.

New Leader, August 12, 1996, Robert Definitely.

Daniels, review of Inside significance Kremlin's Cold War, p. 19.

Political Science Quarterly, summer, 1997, Marshal D. Shulman, review of Affections the Kremlin's Cold War, proprietor. 311.

Publishers Weekly, June 7, 1999, review of The Flight give an account of the Romanovs, p. 64; Apr 1, 2002, review of The Tsar's Last Armada, p.

66.