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Richard Lourie is a historian and American foreign policy expert on Russia–United States relations, on which he consulted for Hillary Clinton in her failed 2008 presidential run. He served as Gorbachev's translator, has written a fictional autobiography of Joseph Stalin, a biography of Andrei Sakharov, and a prognosticative biography Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash, which explores the education and ascent of Putin during the dissolution of the USSR, and his career as Russia's autocrat, in order to estimate his probable future moves, while diagnosing Russia's spiritual ills and "narcissistic injuries" and "utter dependence on the ongoing will to power."[1]

He has translated over 30 books, and published articles and reviews in mainstream US media.[2]

Selected publications

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References

  1. ^ Lourie 2017, Inside flap.Quoted review by Jonathan M. Winer, former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, who considers Lourie's treatment of Russia an analogue of Sigmund Freud's treatment of Vienna.
  2. ^ Lourie 2017, back flap biograph.