Gennady Vasilyevich Kostyrchenko (ÃÂþÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂõýúþ, ÃÂõýýðôøù ÃÂðÃÂøûÃÂõòøÃÂ) (born 1954) is a Soviet and Russian historian, specializing in Soviet politics and national relations.
In 1988, he defended his candidate's dissertation titled "The People's Commissariat of the Aviation Industry on the Eve and During the Great Patriotic War (1939âÂÂ1945)." In 2008, he defended his doctoral dissertation on The Political Leadership of the USSR and the Jewish Intelligentsia (1936âÂÂ1953)
He worked at the Ministry of Aviation Industry, the Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the Central Committee of the CPSU, and after 1991, at the Russian Center for Preservation and Study of Documents of Contemporary History (Federal Archival Agency). He currently works as a senior researcher at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In 2003 Kostyrchenko was pronounced "Man of the Year 5762" by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia for his book "âðùýðàÿþûøÃÂøúð áÃÂðûøýð. ÃÂûðÃÂÃÂàø ðýÃÂøÃÂõüøÃÂø÷ü" (Stalin's Secret Politics. Power and anti-Semitism).
Books
- àÿûõýààúÃÂðÃÂýþóþ ÃÂðÃÂðþýð. ÃÂþûøÃÂøÃÂõÃÂúøõ ÿÃÂõÃÂûõôþòðýøàõòÃÂõõò ò ÿþÃÂûõôýõõ ÃÂÃÂðûøýÃÂúþõ ôõÃÂÃÂÃÂøûõÃÂøõ. Moscow, Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya, 1994.
- Out of the Red Shadows: Anti-Semitism in StalinâÂÂs Russia. Amherst, MA: Prometheus Books, 1995. <small>âÂÂEnglish edition of àÿûõýààúÃÂðÃÂýþóþ ÃÂðÃÂðþýð.</small>
- âðùýðàÿþûøÃÂøúð áÃÂðûøýð. ÃÂûðÃÂÃÂàø ðýÃÂøÃÂõüøÃÂø÷ü. Moscow, Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya, 2001. Second revised and expanded edition: 2003.
- áÃÂðûøý ÿÃÂþÃÂøò ëúþÃÂüþÿþûøÃÂþòû. ÃÂûðÃÂÃÂàø õòÃÂõùÃÂúðàøýÃÂõûûøóõýÃÂøàò áááà. Moscow, ROSSPEN, 2009.
- âðùýðàÿþûøÃÂøúð ÃÂ¥ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂòð: òûðÃÂÃÂÃÂ, øýÃÂõûûøóõýÃÂøÃÂ, õòÃÂõùÃÂúøù òþÿÃÂþÃÂ. Moscow, Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya, 2012.
- âðùýðàÿþûøÃÂøúð: þàÃÂÃÂõöýõòð ôþ ÃÂþÃÂñðÃÂõòð Moscow, Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya, 2019.
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