Name William Taubman Role Political Scientist | Siblings Philip Taubman Nephews A. Alfred Taubman | |
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Books Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, Stalin's American Policy, Moscow spring, The view from Lenin Hills Awards Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography Nominations National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography |
Trump and Putin in Historical Perspective: How We Got into the New Cold War
William Chase Taubman (born November 13, 1941 in New York City) is an American political scientist. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003.
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- Trump and Putin in Historical Perspective How We Got into the New Cold War
- Gorbachev His Life and Times Conversation with Professors William Taubman and Pavel Machala
- Selected publications
- References

He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1962; an M.A. from Columbia University in 1965; a Certificate of the Russian Institute, 1965; and Ph.D., Columbia University, 1969.
He is currently Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. His wife, Jane A. Taubman, is a professor of Russian at Amherst College.
He was the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim fellowship.
He is the brother of diplomatic journalist Philip Taubman.
"Gorbachev: His Life and Times": Conversation with Professors William Taubman and Pavel Machala
Selected publications
References
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