GEORGE   FEIFER

recent publications

- BREAKING OPEN JAPAN.  Smithsonian Books, 2006.

- THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA.  The Lyons Press, 2001

- essay about the Berlin Tunnel in THE COLD WAR: A MILITARY HISTORY.  
           Random House, 2006.

- essay about the U-2 Affair in WHAT IF 3. Putnam, 2003

- contribution to NO END TO VICTORY (the Quarterly Journal of Military History’s
          best World War II articles). Putnam, 2001; Book of the Month Club main selection

- essay about the Russian revolution in WHAT IF 2. Putnam, 2001

- featured article about World War II’s legacy in World Policy Journal, autumn 2000

- RED FILES: SECRETS:  SECRETS FROM THE RUSSIAN ARCHIVES. TV Books, 2000;               featured in the PBS documentary series 
 
previous publications:

Books: 

       JUSTICE IN MOSCOW (Simon and Schuster, 1964)		
       THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE (for Senator Edward Brooke,
           Little Brown, 1967)
       MESSAGE FROM MOSCOW (Knopf, 1969)  (Book of the Month Club main selection)
       THE GIRL FROM PETROVKA (Viking, 1971) (basis for the film starring Anthony                                   Hopkins and Goldie Hawn)
       SOLZHENITSYN (Stein & Day, 1972)
       OUR MOTHERLAND (Viking, 1973)
       MOSCOW FAREWELL (Viking, 1976)**
       TO DANCE (with Valery Panov, Knopf, 1978)
       THE DESTINED HOUR (With Barbara and Barry Rosen
              Doubleday, 1982)
       TENNOZAN: THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA AND THE ATOMIC BOMB
             (Ticknor and Fields, 1992)  (a New York Times "Notable of 1992")
       DIVORCE, an Oral Portrait (The New Press, 1995)

Screenwriting:

         “Moscow Farewell” (with Victor Nord, for direction by Sir Peter Hall); “The Brothers
          Karamazov” (with Harry Moses, for PBS); “Michael and Tanya” (for Paramount and                     NBC); “Russians, Language and People” (a 20-part BBC series) : “Moscow U” (for
         CBS’s “The 20^th Century”) 

Translation:

       THE WHITE STEAMSHIP, a Russian novel by Chingiz Aitmatov
          (Hodder and Stoughton, 1976)

Essays published in these anthologies:
      CHINA IN REVOLUTION, HISTORY, DOCUMENTS & ANALYSIS,
          edited by Vera Simone (Fawcett, 1968)
      WHITE COLLAR CRIMINAL, edited by Gilbert Geis
          (Atherton Press, 1968)
      LAW AND THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, edited by Lawrence  Friedman and Stewart                 Macaulay (Bobbs-Merrill, 1969)
      MIRROR Of MAN, READINGS IN SOCIOLOGY & LITERATURE,
          edited by Jane Dabaghian (Little Brown, 1970)
      SOVIET INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES, INSIDE VIEWS,
          edited by William G. Andrews (Norton, 1970)
      MAN, STATE AND SOCIETY IN THE SOVIET UNION,
          edited by Joseph L. Nogee (Prager, 1972)
      DISSENT IN THE USSR, edited by Rudolph Tokes (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975)
      ANNUAL EDITIONS: COMPARATIVE POLITICS 
         (Dushkin Publishing Group, 1984)
      AN INVITATION TO LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCE by Richard Lempert and Joseph                     Sanders (Longman, 1986)
      SOURCES, 1989 ANNUAL: SOVIET-AMERICAN DEBATE
         (Greenhaven Press, 1989)
      THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE by George F.
         Cole (Brooks Publishing, 1992) 
      THE GREATEST U.S. NAVY STORIES EVER TOLD. edited by Iain C Martin
          (The Lyons Press, 2006) 

Articles, essays and book reviews published in these and other American magazines:
     The Atlantic, Harper's, the New Republic, Look, GEO (New York), the Saturday Review, the         Reader's Digest, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the 
     New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Nation, Book World, the Saturday Evening Post,                Conde Nast's Traveler, Holiday, Civilization, the Quarterly Review of Military History,                 World Policy Journal, Penthouse, the Baltimore Sun, The Reporter... 

 

Articles, essays, reviews published in these and other British and European magazines:
     The Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Times, the Sunday Times Magazine, the Sunday          Telegraph, the Telegraph Sunday Magazine, the Guardian, the Observer Magazine, the                  Spectator, the Reader's Digest (French, English, Italian, German and Scandinavian editions),
     l'Esprit, GEO (Hamburg), Stern, Die Zeit...

education:  Harvard College, B.A., (magna cum laude)
                   Columbia University, Russian Institute Certificate, (PhD. requirements completed                                except dissertation) Moscow State University (exchange year,1962)

awards:  Christopher Medal, 1983; Ford Fellowship, 1963; Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1960 - 1962; Phi Beta Kappa, 1956
                       
employment: 
2001:  OSCE supervisor of Kosovo parliamentary elections
1999:  OSCE observer of Russian Duma elections  
1988:  instructor in Soviet studies, Dartmouth College summer school 
1984-1990: lecturer about Russians as People at Ohio State, Notre Dame,                                     Tulane, Carelton, Clark, St. Olaf, William and Mary and scores of                                         other colleges and universities  
1965 -  present: free-lance writing
1962 - 1980:  various roles on BBC radio and television, including "Russians                                             Language & People," a 20-part series
1964: newswriter, CBS News
1956 - 1958:  Officer Candidate's School and service aboard a U.S. naval                                                    destroyer