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Léon Poliakov

1910 - 1997

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Léon Poliakov (Russian: Лев Поляков; 25 November 1910 – 8 December 1997) was a French historian who wrote extensively on the Holocaust and antisemitism. He is the author of The Aryan Myth. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Léon Poliakov is the 364th most popular historian (down from 304th in 2019), the 1,527th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,326th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Léon Poliakov ranks 364 out of 561. Before him are J. B. Bury, Edward Granville Browne, Miroslav Hroch, Fenestella, Israel Gutman, and Donald Kagan. After him are Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Franz Babinger, Mykhailo Maksymovych, Taner Akçam, Khalifah ibn Khayyat, and Benny Morris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Léon Poliakov ranks 226. Before him are Carlo Orlandi, Rodolpho Barteczko, Vakhtang Chabukiani, Ellen Braumüller, Aldo Donati, and Vivien Thomas. After him are Jutta Rüdiger, Charles Crichton, Henry L. Giclas, Miquel Crusafont i Pairó, Walter Thiel, and Ma Zhongying. Among people deceased in 1997, Léon Poliakov ranks 194. Before him are Anne Stine Ingstad, Willy den Ouden, Pedro Zaballa, Tony Williams, Chris Farley, and James Krüss. After him are Natallia Arsiennieva, Bozorg Alavi, Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, Corneliu Baba, Arthur Machado, and Kathy Acker.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Léon Poliakov ranks 1,527 out of 3,761. Before him are Victor Motschulsky (1810), Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov (1854), Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1898), Lyudmila Shevtsova (1934), Oleg Losev (1903), and Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792). After him are Osip Brik (1888), Vladimir Krutov (1960), Abraham of Smolensk (1172), Nikolai Tanayev (1945), Andrey Piontkovsky (1940), and Konstantin Batyushkov (1787).

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Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, Léon Poliakov ranks 11. Before him are Alexander Kazhdan (1922), Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841), Alexander Vasiliev (1867), Jacob Theodor Klein (1685), Mikhail Pogodin (1800), and Serhii Plokhy (1957). After him are Olena Apanovych (1919), Boris Rybakov (1908), Cyril Toumanoff (1913), Boris Chicherin (1828), Isabella Bashmakova (1921), and Aron Gurevich (1924).

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