Yuri Felshtinsky was born in Moscow in 1956. In 1974, he began studying history at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. In 1978, he immigrated to the USA and continued his study of history, first at Brandeis University and later at Rutgers, where he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (History). In 1993, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and became the first citizen of a foreign state to be awarded a doctoral degree in Russia. He has compiled and edited several dozen volumes of archival documents and is the author of the following books:
The Bolsheviks and the Left SRS [Bol’sheviki i levye esery] (Paris, 1985);
Towards a History of Our Isolation [K istorii nashei zakrytosti] (London, 1988; Moscow 1991);
The Failure of World Revolution [Krushenie mirovoi revolutsii] (London, 199I; Moscow 1992);
Big Bosses [Vozhdi v zakone] (Moscow 1999);

Assassination of Russia. Script
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Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and the left opposition in the USSR, 1918-1928
Revue publiee avec le concours du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Octobre-Decembre 1990
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Trotsky’s Notebooks, 1933-1935. Writings on Lenin, Dialectics, and Evolutionism
Columbia University Press. New York. 1986
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The legal foundations of the immigration and emigration policy of the USSR, 1917-27
Soviet Studies. University of Glasgow Press. 1982
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