William Taubman

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1969; M.A., 1965; Certificate of the Russian Institute, 1965; B.A., Harvard University, 1962
Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science, Amherst College
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
Department of Political Science, Amherst College
Amherst, MA 01002-5000
413.542.2420
wctaubman@amherst.edu

Research Interests
Leadership in Russian politics; rethinking the Cold War.

Current Projects
The Khrushchev period, 1953-1964; Cold War and post-Cold War compared.

Selected publications
Khrushchev, The Man and His Era (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003).

Co-editor, Nikita Khrushchev (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).

Editor/translator, Khrushchev and Khrushchev by Sergei Khrushchev (Boston: Little, Brown, 1990).

Co-author (with Jane Taubman), Moscow Spring (New York: Summit Books, 1989).

Stalin’s American Policy (New York: W. W. Norton, 1982).