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 Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky (born Nicolai Valentinovitch Riasanovskiy) was born on 21 December 1923 in Harbin, China, the son of lawyer and legal scholar Valentin A. Riasanovsky and Antonina Riasanovsky, a teacher and novelist who wrote as Nina Fedorova. The family remained in China until 1938, then came to the United States. He graduated in history from the University of Oregon, then served in Army intelligence during World War II after training at [[Camp Ritchie]], Maryland ([[:Category:Class 10|Class 10]]); he later recalled participating in the Normandy landings and the Battle of the Bulge.
-After the war he studied at Harvard under Michael Karpovich, then took a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, receiving his D.Phil. In 1949. He taught at the University of Iowa before joining the University of California, Berkeley faculty in 1957, remaining until retirement in 1997. His textbook ''A History of Russia'' (first published 1963) became a standard undergraduate survey through the Cold War and beyond. Riasanovsky died on 14 May 2011 in Oakland, California.
+After the war he studied at Harvard under Michael Karpovich, receiving a master's degree in 1947, then took a Rhodes Scholarship to St John's College, Oxford, receiving his D.Phil. in 1949. He taught at the University of Iowa from 1949 to 1957, publishing ''Russia and the West in the Teaching of the Slavophiles'' (1952) and spending 1954–1955 as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Helsinki, before joining the University of California, Berkeley faculty in 1957, remaining until retirement in 1997. His textbook ''A History of Russia'' (first published 1963) became a standard undergraduate survey through the Cold War and beyond, reaching its eighth edition in 2010; he also wrote ''Nicholas I and Official Nationality in Russia'' (1959). Riasanovsky died on 14 May 2011 in Oakland, California.
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