Daniel Chirot

Daniel Chirot (born 1942) is an American historian and writer on Russia. He is the Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Washington. Chirot is also the founder of the journal East European Politics and Societies, and has written and edited many books and articles.

Early life and education Daniel Chirot was born to Jewish parents in Vichy France on November 27, 1942. His parents were able to evade the Nazis until the end of World War II, and in 1948 Chirot and his family immigrated to the United States.

Career Chirot has taught in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington since 1975, and was appointed as the Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies in 1980. and genocide, publishing 15 books and numerous articles in such scholarly journals as the Journal of Asian Studies, East European Politics and Societies, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Journal of Democracy, Society, International Sociology, and Perspectives on Politics.

Chirot served at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., as a senior fellow from 2004 to 2005, and has received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the U.S. State Department. You Say You Want a Revolution? Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 2020.