Lurie Yakov

Lurie Yakov (1921–1996) – historian of Russian culture.

From 1937 to 1941 he studied at the Historicak Faculty of the Leningrad State University. In 1942, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on the history of Russian-English relations in the epoch of Ivan the Terrible at the Tomsk State University. From 1942 to 1945, he taught at various universities, mainly provincial ones. In 1945-1949, Lecturer at the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute named after A.I. Herzen. In 1949, he was fired out during the campaign ‘against cosmopolitanism’. From 1953 to 1957, Junior Researcher at the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. From 1957 to 1982, he worked at the Old Russian Literature Sector of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. (Pushkin House). In 1962, he defended his Doctoral dissertation in Philology ‘Ideological Struggle in Russian Publicism of the Late Fifteenth – Early Sixteenth Centuries’.

Compositions

Anti-feudal Heretical Movements in Russia of the Fourteenth – Early Sixteenth Centuries. Moscow-Leningrad: Acad. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R., 1955. 544 p. (Together with N.A. Kazakova).
Ideological Struggle in Russian Publicism of the Late Fifteenth – Early Sixteenth Centuries. Moscow-Leningrad: Acad. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R., 1960. 532 pp.
The Tale of Dracula. Texts. / Research and publ. Ya.S. Lurie. Moscow-Leningrad: Nauka, 1964. 262 p.
All-Russian Chronicles of the Fourteenth – Fifteenth Centuries. Leningrad: Acad. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R., 1976. 283 p.
(Under the pseudonym Kurdyumov A.A.) In the Land of Non-Frightened Idiots. Paris: La Presse libre, 1983. 395 p. (2nd ed.: St. Petersburg, EUSPb. 2005).
(Under the pseudonym Koprzhiva-Lurie B.Ya.). The Story of One Life. Paris: Atheneum, 1987. 279 p. (2nd ed. St. Petersburg: EUSPb, 2004.)
Russian Contemporaries of the Renaissance. Book Scribe Euphrosin, D’jak Fyodor Kuritsyn. Leningrad: Nauka, 1988. 158 p.
After Leo Tolstoy. Historical Views of Tolstoy and Problems of the Twentieth Century. St. Petersburg: Dmitry Bulanin Publishing House, 1993. 166 p.
Two Histories of Russia of the Fifteenth century. St. Petersburg: Dmitry Bulanin Publishing House, 1994. 238 p.
Old Russia and New Russia. Collection of works. St. Petersburg: Dmitry Bulanin Publishing House, 1999. 408 p.
Selected Articles and Letters. St. Petersburg: EUSPb, 2011. 272 p.

Bibliography

The List of works by Ya.S. Lurie (1921–1996) // Lurie Ya.S. Old Russia and New Russia. St. Petersburg: Dmitry Bulanin Publishing House, 1999. P. 383–404.

About him

In memoriam. Collection of Articles in the Memory of Ya.S. Lurie. St. Petersburg, 1997.
Moroz E. Historian in the Epoch of Historical Upheavals // ‘People of the Book’ in the World of Books. 2006. Iss. 61.