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Richard Lourie (born 1940) is an American 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."

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

Selected publications

• Janusz Korczak (1986). King Matt the First. Translated by Richard Lourie. United States: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0-374-34139-7. introduction by Bruno Bettelheim
• Dobroszycki, Lucjan, ed. (1987) . The Chronicle of the Łódź Ghetto, 1941–1944. Translated by Richard Lourie; Joachim Neugroschel; et al. Yale University Press. Abridged edition, Hardcover. ISBN 978-0-300-03924-5 – via Google Books. ISBN 0-300-03208-0; Paperback, 1987.
• Lourie, Richard (1991). Russia Speaks: An Oral History from the Revolution to the Present. HarperCollins. Russian All-Military Union § cite ref-9
• Lourie, Richard (1 October 2000). The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin: A Novel. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0306809972.
• Lourie, Richard (2002). Sakharov. A Biography. Brandeis University Press. ISBN 978-1-5846-5207-6.
• Lourie, Richard (2017). Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-53808-8.
• Lourie, Richard (29 January 2019). "Out of the Picture: On Tony Wood's "Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War"". LA Review of Books. See also: Tony Wood (historian)
• "Putin's bridge over troubled waters".
• "Kazakhstan May Be the Next Ukraine".

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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.

External links

• Works by or about Richard Lourie at the Internet Archive

• Living people
• American historians
• Russia–United States relations
• Male biographers