![]() I do have to say in all honesty that I can claim only very Have become, for example, school teachers, lawyers, stock brokers, or moved up the Some of my students have gone on to become professional academics, although many more Too). Read an interview about my third book. ![]() I occasionally publish something on the Soviet Union even now (and on some other topics, Soviet Union under Stalin, whereas I have since moved to the study of the culturalĮncounter between Western Europeans and Russians in the Early Modern Age, even if My first two books studied the history of the ![]() I also received a doctoral grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities ResearchĬouncil, a federal granting agency in Canada, by which same Council in 2004 I wasĪwarded a three-year grant for research that led to my third scholarly monograph, In 2000, I was the recipient of Nipissing's annual prize for most outstanding teacher,Īnd in 2003 I received its Research Achievement Prize. During this time I wrote two books, Life and Death under Stalin: Kalinin Province, 1945-1953, which was based on my dissertation, and The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov, 1896-1948. I then taught European and World History at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario ![]() in 1994 from McGill University in Montreal. To Canada, where I further specialized in Russian and European history. ![]() After receiving my first degrees at the University of Amsterdam, I moved I was born in Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1962, where I graduated from high school Kees (Case) Boterbloem Professor Contact information and cv ![]()
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