Vladimir Alexandrov on the Extraordinary Life of Boris Savinkov
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
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In this episode, Andrew is joined by Vladimir Alexandrov, the author of To Break Russia’s Chains: Boris Savinkov and His Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks, to shine a light on the life of Boris Savinkov, an extraordinary man who tried to change Russian and world history.
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Vladimir Alexandrov received a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Princeton. He taught Russian literature and culture at Harvard before moving to Yale, where he is B.E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures. He is the author of The Black Russian as well as books on Bely, Nabokov, and Tolstoy, and lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
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