Andrey Fursov
Andrey Ilyich Fursov is a Soviet Russian historian and author, Candidate of History Sciences. Member of the Union of Writers of Russia.
From 1997 to 2006, Fursov headed the Institute of Russian History. He headed a department at Moscow State University.
He graduated from the MSU in 1973. In 1986 he defended his Candidat dissertation.
From 1981 he worked at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He refused to join the CPSU.
He was an expert in the trial Yeltsin vs. the CPSU. He has a negative attitude towards Lenin.
Fursov is the author of 12 monographs.
His first major work was published in 1986.
Its co-author is Yuri Pivovarov.
He is a Moskva (magazine) award winner. He is a Nash Sovremennik award winner.
Academician of the International Academy of Sciences.