Harold Shukman

Harold Shukman (23 March 1931 – 11 July 2012) was a British historian, specialising in the history of Russia.^[1][2][3]

Shukman was born in

In addition to numerous academic works, he also translated books by

Shukman was married twice. His first wife was Ann King-Farlow, also a Russian scholar, and his second wife Barbara Shukman who is a granddaughter of Benjamin Guggenheim and Florette Seligman Guggenheim, an artist. His son, Henry Shukman, is a travel writer and novelist. Another son, David Shukman, is a science journalist.

Selected works

• Lenin and the Russian Revolution (1967)
• Stalin (1999)
• A History of World Communism (1975) (with
  H.T. Willetts
  )
• ISBN 978-0-67-036499-2
  .
• ISBN 978-0-31-676372-1
  .
• (ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution (1988)
• (ed.) Agents for Change: Intelligence Services in the 21st Century (2000)
• Secret Classrooms: An Untold Story of the Cold War (2006) (with Geoffrey Elliott)
• War or Revolution: Russian Jews and Conscription in Britain, 1917 (2006)
• ISBN 978-0-00-255123-6
  .