Villa Gillet - Rhône-Alpes - recherches contemporaines

Yuri Slezkine is professor of history and director of the Institute of Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North (Cornell University Press, 1996) and co-directed the work, In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War (Princeton University Press, 2000). His book, The Jewish Century, translated into French as Le Siècle juif by Marc Saint-Upéry, will be published in France in Autumn 2009 by La Découverte