Discussant: Sacha Zala, Director, Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland

Gabriel Gorodetsky is a Quondam Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University and an emeritus professor of Russian Studies at Tel Aviv University. He obtained his PhD at Oxford University, where he was supervised by the renowned historian E.H. Carr. He founded and directed The Cummings Center for Russian Studies at Tel Aviv University for fifteen years before joining All Souls College in Oxford. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the universities of Princeton and Freiburg, a Fellow at the Rockefeller Bellagio Center in Italy and a Visiting Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington and St. Antony’s College in Oxford.

Professor Gorodetsky further taught at the universities of Munich and Cologne and the European University in Budapest. He has published widely on Soviet Foreign Policy and the Second World War with Cambridge University Press and  Yale University Press. His latest publications include Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia, and The Complete Maisky Diaries in three volumes. A French compendium edition of the diary with extensive commentary has just been published under the title: Ivan Maïski, Journal (1932-1943): Les révélations inédites de l'ambassadeur russe à Londres.

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