Harold Shukman (23 March 1931 – 11 July 2012) was a British historian, specialising in the history of Russia.
[1][2][3] Shukman was born in London to a family of Jewish immigrants escaping from the Russian Empire.
Afterwards, he went on to study Russian and Serbo-Croat at the University of Nottingham, gaining a first-class degree.
[5] Having completed his doctorate in 1960, he took up an academic career at Oxford where he eventually became the director of the Russian centre at St Antony's College.
In addition to numerous academic works, he also translated books by Anatoli Rybakov (Heavy Sand and Children of the Arbat) and a 1994 biography of Vladimir Lenin by Dmitri Volkogonov.