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Léon Poliakov

1910 - 1997

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Léon Poliakov (Russian: Лев Поляков; 25 November 1910, Saint Petersburg – 8 December 1997, Orsay) was a French historian who wrote extensively on the Holocaust and antisemitism and wrote The Aryan Myth. Born into a Russian Jewish family, Poliakov lived in Italy and Germany until he settled in France. He cofounded the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation, established to collate documentation on the persecution of Jews during World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Léon Poliakov has received more than 71,547 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Léon Poliakov is the 304th most popular historian (down from 276th in 2019), the 1,326th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,310th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Historian.

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  • 4.60

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Léon Poliakov ranks 304 out of 561. Before him are Jean Delumeau, Stéphane Courtois, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Lyubomir Miletich, Wilhelm von Bode, and William H. McNeill. After him are Hermann Conring, Marsyas of Pella, Joan Wallach Scott, A. J. P. Taylor, Gerda Lerner, and André Clot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Léon Poliakov ranks 186. Before him are László Cseh, Attilio Pavesi, Erkki Aaltonen, Cahit Arf, Gunter d'Alquen, and Jean Martinon. After him are Roy J. Plunkett, Douglas Bader, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Diana Mosley, Jafar Sharif-Emami, and Edwin O. Reischauer. Among people deceased in 1997, Léon Poliakov ranks 159. Before him are Amos Tutuola, Arthur Machado, Brian Keith, Chris Farley, Cahit Arf, and Misael Pastrana Borrero. After him are Baltazar, Edward Osóbka-Morawski, Salvador Artigas, Sanford Meisner, René Huyghe, and Georges Guétary.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Léon Poliakov ranks 1,326 out of 3,761. Before him are Edwin Klebs (1834), Pyotr Kozlov (1862), Igor Sechin (1960), Kirill Lavrov (1925), Aleksandr Ivanchenkov (1940), and Simon Vratsian (1882). After him are Nikolay Beketov (1827), Alexei Uchitel (1951), Mikhail Isakovsky (1900), Alexander Petrov (1799), Konstantin Fedin (1892), and Sergei Shchukin (1854).

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Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, Léon Poliakov ranks 8. Before him are George Ostrogorsky (1902), Vasily Bartold (1869), Vladimir Minorsky (1877), Alexander Vasiliev (1867), Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841), and Alexander Kazhdan (1922). After him are Mikhail Pogodin (1800), Jacob Theodor Klein (1685), Mikhail Artamonov (1898), Boris Rybakov (1908), Cyril Toumanoff (1913), and Serhii Plokhy (1957).

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