Harold shukman stalin biography wife

Mr Shukman was born in March in London, and came from a family of Jewish immigrants who had escaped poverty in the Russian empire before the First World War. His father David started a new life as a tailor in London and after leaving school Mr Shukman joined Standard Telephones as a trainee radio engineer. The experience prompted Mr Shukman to pursue his academic interest in Russia, and he went on to gain a first at Nottingham University in Russian and Serbo-Croat.

While at Nottingham, he took part in the first post-war visit to the Soviet Union by British students in His ambition was to write a doctorate on the Jewish Labour Bund, the socialist political movement in pre-revolutionary Russia. He later moved to Oxford with wife Ann, a scholar of Russian literature whom he married in They had three children, David, Henry and Clare.

Harold shukman stalin biography wife: His first wife was Ann King-Farlow,

After he and Ann divorced, Dr Shukman married Barbara, a professional artist, in He died of cancer in July and is survived by his second wife, his children and three stepchildren. We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused.