Zubok, Vladislav M.

Vladislav M. Zubok (zubok@temple.edu) is an Associate Professor of History at Temple University. He received his diploma in History from Moscow State University in Russia in 1975 with a specialization in American political history. He completed his Ph.D. in 1985 at the Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies in Moscow. His dissertation was on the evolution of U.S. parties in the post-World War II period, focusing on the Democratic Party. Zubok worked at the Institute until 1991. Since the late 1980's, he has conducted archival research on Cold War history. From 1991 to 1994, he taught at a number of U.S. universities, including Stanford University, Amherst College, University of Michigan, and Ohio University. Between 1991 and 1994, he received research grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Program on Peace and International Cooperation, the Kennan Institute, and the Norwegian Nobel Institute. From 1994 until 2001, he held the position of Senior Fellow and Director of Russian/CIS Programs at the National Security Archive of George Washington University. Zubok co-authored "Inside the Kremlin's Cold War" (Harvard University Press, 1996), which received the Lionel Gelber Prize for the Best Book on International Relations. He has published numerous articles, traveled extensively, conducted archival research in Russia, Ukraine, and the republics of the Caucasus, and organized several conferences and a summer school on Cold War studies. He also served as a consultant for several film documentaries, including the twenty-four-part CNN series "Cold War."