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'''Richard Lourie''' (born 1940) is an American historian and American foreign policy expert on Russia–United States relations.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Richard Lourie: Historia nie jest sprawiedliwa |url=https://dzieje.pl/aktualnosci/richard-lourie-historia-nie-jest-sprawiedliwa |access-date=2025-08-19 |website=dzieje.pl |language=pl}}</ref>

==Life== In the mid-1960s, at the University of California, Berkeley, Richard Lourie studied Polish literature with Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, participating in seminars on translation of Polish poetry.

Lourie consulted, as a historian and American foreign policy expert on Russia–United States relations, for Hillary Clinton in her failed 2008 presidential run, and served as Mikhail Gorbachev's translator.

Lourie has written a fictional autobiography of Joseph Stalin and a biography of Andrei Sakharov.

He has written a prognosticative biography, ''Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash'', which explores the education and ascent of Putin during the dissolution of the USSR and his career as Russia's autocrat in order to estimate his probable future moves, while diagnosing Russia's spiritual ills and "narcissistic injuries" and "utter dependence on the ongoing will to power."{{Sfn|Lourie|2017|loc=Inside flap.|ps=Quoted review by Jonathan M. Winer, former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, who considers Lourie's treatment of Russia an analogue of Sigmund Freud's treatment of Vienna.}}

Lourie has translated over 30 books and has published articles and reviews in mainstream US media.{{sfn|Lourie|2017|loc=back flap biograph}}

==Select bibliography== {{refbegin}} * {{cite book|date=1986|location=United States|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=0-374-34139-7|title=King Matt the First|author=Janusz Korczak|translator=Richard Lourie}} introduction by Bruno Bettelheim * {{cite book |title=The Chronicle of the Łódź Ghetto, 1941–1944 |publisher=Yale University Press. Abridged edition, Hardcover |orig-year=1984 |year=1987 |isbn=978-0-300-03924-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d1-U17adWKIC&pg=PR61 |editor-link=Lucjan Dobroszycki |editor-first=Lucjan |editor-last=Dobroszycki |via=Google Books |translator=Richard Lourie |translator2=Joachim Neugroschel |display-translators=et al}} {{ISBN|0-300-03208-0}}; Paperback, 1987. * {{cite book|author-link=Richard Lourie|author-last=Lourie|author-first=Richard|title=Russia Speaks: An Oral History from the Revolution to the Present|publisher=HarperCollins|date= 1991}} {{slink|Russian_All-Military_Union#cite_ref-9}} * {{cite book|title=The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin: A Novel|author-link=Richard Lourie|author-last=Lourie|author-first=Richard|date=1 October 2000|isbn=978-0306809972|publisher=Da Capo Press}} * {{cite book|author-last=Lourie|author-first=Richard|author-link=Richard Lourie|title=Sakharov. A Biography|publisher=Brandeis University Press|date=2002|isbn=978-1-5846-5207-6}} * {{cite book|author-link=Richard Lourie|author-last=Lourie|author-first=Richard|title=Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash|date=2017|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-53808-8}} * {{cite news|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/out-of-the-picture-on-tony-woods-russia-without-putin-money-power-and-the-myths-of-the-new-cold-war/|title=Out of the Picture: On Tony Wood's "Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War"|publisher=LA Review of Books|author-last=Lourie|author-first=Richard|author-link=Richard Lourie|date=29 January 2019}} See also: Tony Wood (historian) * {{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-putins-bridge-over-troubled-waters/|title=Putin's bridge over troubled waters}} * {{cite news|url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/05/04/russia-threatens-to-cut-gas-to-ukraine-a34951|title=Kazakhstan May Be the Next Ukraine}} {{refend}} {{expand section|date=March 2022}}

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== External links == * {{Internet Archive author |sname= Richard Lourie}}

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