--- title: Marvin Kalb | TIME description: Kalb, senior adviser to the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Murrow Professor Emeritus at Harvard, is the author of the memoir The Year I Was Peter the Great—1956: Khrushchev, Stalin’s Ghost and a Young American in Russia. canonical: https://time.com/author/marvin-kalb/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/marvin-kalb/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Marvin Kalb ## Marvin Kalb _Kalb, senior adviser to the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Murrow Professor Emeritus at Harvard, is the author of the memoir_ [The Year I Was Peter the Great—1956: Khrushchev, Stalin’s Ghost and a Young American in Russia](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0815731612/?tag=timecom-20)_._ ## Marvin Kalb *  Jul 24, 2024 ### [The Case for Mark Kelly as Kamala Harris’ VP Pick](https://time.com/7002531/case-for-mark-kelly-kamala-harris-vp-essay/) Kelly’s story, if attached to the Harris ticket, would strengthen the Democratic quest for victory, ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jul 18, 2024 ### [Barack Obama and Bill Clinton Must Ask Joe Biden to Step Aside](https://time.com/7000175/barack-obama-bill-clinton-joe-biden-step-aside-essay/) ‘The drums and bugles of the Democratic Party are beginning to sound with Whitmanesque force,’ write... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 28, 2017 ### [What Does Vladimir Putin Fear? His Own People](https://time.com/5039688/vladimir-putin-fears-own-people/) The threat of revolt is never far from his mind [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 10, 2017 ### [The Night Nikita Khrushchev Gave Me My Nickname](https://time.com/4976612/nikita-khruschev-russia-us-ambassador/) On July 4th, 1956, I found myself drinking and debating sports with Soviet Union leaders [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 1, 2015 ### [Putin Takes on Syria](https://time.com/4057308/putin-takes-on-syria/) And makes Russia a global player again [WORLD](/section/world/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/marvin-kalb/","name":"Marvin Kalb"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/marvin-kalb/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/marvin-kalb/"},"name":"Marvin Kalb","jobTitle":null,"description":"Kalb, senior adviser to the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Murrow Professor Emeritus at Harvard, is the author of the memoir The Year I Was Peter the Great—1956: Khrushchev, Stalin’s Ghost and a Young American in Russia.","url":"https://time.com/author/marvin-kalb/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```