Writing Gorbachev's Biography

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Professor Taubman will discuss Gorbachev's character, how it took shape, how it influenced his behavior and his domestic and foreign policies, and how the results of those policies shaped him. He will also discuss challenges he encountered in researching and writing Gorbachev's biography and how he tried to resolve those problems.

William Taubman, Bertrand Snell Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Amherst College, is the author of the just-published Gorbachev: His Life and Times. Taubman’s Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, published in 2003, was awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award for biography.            

Taubman is also the author of The View from Lenin Hills: Soviet Youth in Ferment (1967), Governing Soviet Cities (1973), and Stalin’s American Policy (1982); co-author, with his wife, Jane Taubman, of Moscow Spring (1989); editor-translator of Khrushchev on Khrushchev by Sergei N. Khrushchev (1990); and co-editor (with Sergei Khrushchev and Abbott Gleason) of Nikita Khrushchev (2000). 

Taubman chairs the Advisory Committee of the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington During 2009, he was the President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and has received the Karel Kramar Medal of the Czech Republic and the Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation.