Brian J. Boeck is an American historian. He obtained his doctorate in Russian history from Harvard University, and now teaches Russian and Soviet history at DePaul University in Chicago. His biography of the Soviet writer Mikhail Sholokhov was published to critical acclaim and was nominated for the 2020 Pushkin Book Prize.[1][2]

Dr.
Brian J. Boeck
OccupationProfessor
EmployerDePaul University
Notable workStalin's Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov (2019) Imperial Boundaries: Cossack Communities and Empire-Building in the Age of Peter the Great (2009)
Spouse(s)Elena N. Boeck (Ph.D., Yale)

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