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Albert Resis

Albert Resis was an American academic and writer in the field of Russian history. He worked as a professor of history at Northern Illinois University from 1964 to 1992, and then as a professor emeritus from 1992.

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Albert Resis
Born(1921-12-16)December 16, 1921
United States
DiedMarch 10, 2021(2021-03-10) (aged 99)
OccupationHistorian

Albert Resis (December 16, 1921 – March 10, 2021) was an American academic and writer in the field of Russian history. He worked as a professor of history at Northern Illinois University from 1964 to 1992, and then as a professor emeritus from 1992.1

He was the author of the books1 Stalin, the Politburo and the Onset of the Cold War: 1945-19462 (1988) and Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics,3 together with Russian author Felix Chuev (1993). He was also the main author of a number of articles in Encyclopædia Britannica on Russian and Soviet history.4

Resis died in DeKalb, Illinois, in March 2021, at the age of 99.5

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  1. "Albert RESIS Biography, Bibliography, Books". Retrieved August 11, 2011.
  2. Resis, Albert (1988). Stalin the Politburo and the Onset of the Cold War 1945-46. Univ Pittsburgh. ISBN 978-99915-3-927-0.
  3. Molotov, V.M.; Resis, Albert; Chuev, Felix (1993). Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics. Ivan R. Dee. ISBN 978-1-56663-027-6.
  4. "Albert Resis". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved August 11, 2011.
  5. Albert Resis obituary