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- Birth nameRobert Charles Tucker
- Robert Tucker was born on May 29, 1918 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He is known for Citizen Kurchatov: Stalin's Bomb Maker (1999), Stalin (1990) and Cold War (1998). He was married to Evgenya Pestretsova Tucker. He died on July 29, 2010 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
- SpouseEvgenya Pestretsova Tucker(1946 - July 29, 2010) (his death, 1 child)
- Professor of politics at Princeton University, 1962-1984. Specialized in Soviet-era history and politics.
- He was working on the final book of his Stalin trilogy when he died.
- He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Evgeniya Pestretsova Tucker, of Princeton, New Jersey; his daughter Liza Tucker; his sister, Marilyn Tucker Goldman; and two grandchildren.
- He taught at Indiana University and Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.
- He studied at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts for a Ph.D. in philosophy. He earned his Ph.D. on the early writings of Marx.
- [on finishing the Stalin biography trilogy]: I hope I won't be Stalin's last victim but I think that's what happened.
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