Background
Frenkin, Mikhail was born in 1910 in Baku.
Frenkin, Mikhail was born in 1910 in Baku.
Graduated in history from the Leningrad Teachers’ Institute.
Arrested in the early 1930s, and spent one year in prison. Re-arrested in 1939. Spent 18 years in the Gulag. Released, 1958. Worked at the Moscow History and Archives Institute.
His studies on subjects connected with early Soviet history have been published in the West.
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