Eleonory Gilburd is an American historian. She studied at the University of Chicago and at UC Berkeley. She specializes in the history and culture of modern Russia and the Soviet Union, especially the era of the

Khrushchev Thaw The Khrushchev Thaw ( rus, хрущёвская о́ттепель, r=khrushchovskaya ottepel, p=xrʊˈɕːɵfskəjə ˈotʲ:ɪpʲɪlʲ or simply ''ottepel'')William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, London: Free Press, 2004 is the period ...

. Her first book ''To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture'' (Harvard, 2018) received critical acclaim and was nominated for the Pushkin Book Prize. It also won a number of academic prizes in the field of

Slavic studies Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was prim ...

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