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Igor Lukes

Igor LukesUniversity Professor; Professor of History and International Relations, College of Arts and Sciences; Associate of the Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University.

B.A., M.A., Ph.Dr., Karlova Univerzita, The Czech Republic;M.A.L.D., Ph.D., The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

Professor Lukes is a historian of Central Europe in the twentieth century. He has written about Europe between the world wars and contemporary developments in East Central Europe, Russia, and the Balkans. His work has been published in five countries and in such journals as Journal of Contemporary History, Diplomacy and Statecraft, Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, and Slavic Review. His latest book is Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler: The Diplomacy of Edvard Benes in the 1930s (1996). He is also a co-author and co-editor of The Munich Conference: Prelude to World War II (1999), Inside the Apparat: Perspectives on the Soviet Union (1990) and Gorbachev's USSR: A System in Crisis (1990). In 1997 he received the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching at Boston University.

Office Hours: Tuesday 8:30-11 AM
                    Thursday 8:30-11 AM or by Appointment

Telephone: 617-358-1776

Email: lukes@bu.edu

Professor Lukes teaches the following courses:

Russia: A Reemerging Country in Trouble (CAS IR 542, UNI SS 542)

The Changing Face of Eastern Europe (CAS IR 543, UNI SS 543)

 

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