Bertrand Patenaude in Prague

Bert Patenaude, MA ’79, PhD ’87, teaches history and international relations at Stanford, where he is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. His first book, The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (Stanford University Press, 2002), won the 2003 Marshall Shulman Book Prize and was made into a documentary film for the award-winning PBS history series American Experience. His 2009 book, Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary (Harper), was serialized for radio by the BBC.

• Lecturer, history and international relations, Stanford University, since 1991

• Research fellow, Hoover Institution, since 1992

• Author, Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary (HarperCollins, 2009)

• Book review contributor, The Wall Street Journal

• BA ’77, political science, Boston College

• MA ’79 and PhD ’87, history—both Stanford University