Brian J. Boeck
Brian J. Boeck holds a PhD in Russian history from Harvard University and has taught Russian and Soviet history for over a decade at DePaul University. He is the author of Imperial Boundaries and lives in Chicago.
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Stalin’s Scribe
- By: Brian J. Boeck
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 13 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature
Mikhail Sholokhov is arguably one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature. As a young man,... Read more
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Everybody’s Doin’ It
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