A historian who decoded the Cold War archives
The secret speech, translated into Polish, was no longer secret.
Mark Kramer is an American historian of the Cold War, the Soviet Union, and political change in the socialist bloc and post-communist Eastern Europe. At Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, he directs the Cold War Studies program and has worked extensively in newly opened archives across the former Warsaw Pact and Western countries. His research on how Khrushchev’s 1956 secret speech circulated through Poland traced how a text intended to remain confidential became a political force in de-Stalinization. Through research and editorial work, he treats Cold War history as an international process in which documents and information moved across borders, not only as a sequence of decisions by state leaders.
Career Timeline
- 현재Director, Cold War Studies program, Harvard Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
- 현재Editor, Journal of Cold War Studies
- 현재Editor, Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
- 2006Published “Dethroning Stalin: Poland 1956 and Its Legacy”
- 2000년대Research on de-Stalinization in Eastern Europe and Cold War international history
- 1990년대 이후Archival research in former Warsaw Pact countries and the West