Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa  is professor emeritus of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He received his BA from the University of Tokyo in 1964, MA from the University of Washington in 1967, and PhD from the University of Washington in 1969. He taught at SUNY Oswego from 1969 to 1983, and at the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, from 1983 to 1991 before he came to UCSB, where he taught from 1991 to 2016. His major publications include: The February Revolution: Petrograd, 1917 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981); The Northern Territories Dispute and Russo-Japanese Relations, 2 vols, (Berkeley: International and Area Studies Publication, University of California at Berkeley, 1998); Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and Japan’s Surrender in the Pacific War (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005; The February Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd: The End of Tsarism and the Birth of Dual Power (Leiden: Brill, 1917), and Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017). Racing the Enemy has been translated into Japanese, French, Korean, and Russian.