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...Harvard, Martin has helped revive a once-“distinguished” field of historical study that has ebbed since the retirement of Russian historian Richard E. Pipes, according to History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon...
...Martin came in from the point of view of an associate professor to relaunch our teaching in Russian and Soviet history,” Gordon said. “We are poised to become once again a leading center for the study of Russian and Soviet history...
While he may be teaching Russian history, Martin did not start out in the field...
...grandmother grew up in the Russian empire...lived through the revolution in 1917-19, and had quite a dramatic and adventurous story,” Martin said. “My mom wanted someone to take down her memories...
Martin did so, learning German and Russian along the way to conduct background research. Martin was intrigued enough to continue pursuing Soviet history...