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Alexander Dallin was born on May 21, 1924, in Berlin, Germany. He was a son of David J. Dallin, a one-time Menshevik leader, writer and lecturer on Soviet affairs, and Eugenia (Bein) Dallin.
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In 1947, Dallin received a Bachelor of Science degree from the City College of New York.
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In 1948, Alexander attained a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University. Then, in 1953, he got a Doctor of Philosophy from the same university.
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In 1941, Alexander finished George Washington High School in New York City.
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In this important book, an eminent specialist on Soviet foreign policy assesses the place of the United Nations in overall Soviet strategy.
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1962
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This book represents an analysis of the 1983 Korean airliner incident, explores the possible explanations for the straying over Soviet territory, the information, that supports or contradicts each other and the handling of the incident.
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1985
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This book is intended to fill the need for up-to-date material on the Gorbachev era and to provide scholars and students with source materials and interpretations not available in standard texts. Alexander Dallin and Gail Lapidus have brought together Western analyses, as well as Soviet documents and commentary, dealing with developments in the USSR's politics, economy, society, culture and foreign policy since 1985. The collection covers a wide range of views - sceptical and enthusiastic, ideological and pragmatic - offered by journalists, politicians, observers and participants.
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1991
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This collection of over fifty top-secret letters are drawn from classified Soviet archives only recently opened to scholars. The letters offer unique insight into Soviet foreign policy and Stalin's attitudes and intentions during the Great Terror of the 1930's and the years leading up to the Second World War. They confirm the dependence of Comintern on the Kremlin and Stalin's role in shaping it. They also shed light on the confusion about policies toward foreign Communist parties and the effect this had on the history of the twentieth century.
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2000
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Exploring Soviet and Russian history, politics and foreign policy, "The Uses of History" brings together the classic essays of renowned scholar Alexander Dallin. The author provides insightful analysis and nuanced interpretations of such key and controversial issues as the domestic sources of Soviet foreign policy, Stalin's leadership in World War II, Russian-American relations in the Reagan era, the causes of the collapse of the USSR and the disappointments of Russia's post-Soviet evolution.
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2009
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Alexander Dallin was born on May 21, 1924, in Berlin, Germany. He was a son of David J. Dallin, a one-time Menshevik leader, writer and lecturer on Soviet affairs, and Eugenia (Bein) Dallin.
In 1941, Alexander finished George Washington High School in New York City. In 1947, Dallin received a Bachelor of Science degree from the City College of New York. The following year, in 1948, he attained a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University. Then, in 1953, Alexander got a Doctor of Philosophy, also from Columbia University.
In 1943, Alexander enlisted in the United States Army. As he was fluent in German, Russian and French, he was assigned to Military Intelligence and interrogated German prisoners of war. Three years later, in 1946, Dallin was discharged from the Army.
During the period of time, when Dallin was a graduate student, he joined the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, where he interviewed refugees and émigrés from the Soviet Union in order to better understand and evaluate the characteristics and workings of the Soviet system, based on reports of those interviewed.
Between 1951 and 1954, Dallin held a post of an associate director for the Research Program on the USSR in New York City. From 1954 till 1956, he served as a director of research at the War Documentation Project in Washington and Virginia.
In 1956, Dallin moved to Columbia University, where he was appointed an assistant professor of political science. In 1961, he was promoted to the post of a professor of international relations there, a post he continued to hold till 1965, when he was made the Adlai Stevenson professor of international relations. In addition, between 1962 and 1967, Dallin acted as a director of Columbia's Russian Institute. Also, in the 1960's, he held a post of a part-time consultant to the United States Government.
In 1971, Alexander left the post of the Adlai Stevenson professor of international relations as he moved to Stanford University as a professor of history and political science and remained in that position till 1994. During his tenure at Stanford, Dallin held many other positions, serving as the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History from 1987 till 1994, chairman of the department of international relations betwen 1980 and 1983 and director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies from 1992 till 1994.
It was in 1994, that Dallin co-founded the European University at Saint Petersburg, which specializes in political science, sociology and economics. In addition, together with Condoleezza Rice, he established the New Democracy Fellows Program at Stanford, which brought over students from the post-Communist world for graduate work in social sciences.
Also, during his career, Dallin authored, co-authored and edited numerous works, including "German Rule in Russia, 1941-1945" (1957), "The Soviet Union at the United Nations: An Inquiry into Soviet Motives and Objectives" (1962), "Diversity in International Communism: A Documentary Record, 1961-1963" (1963), "Russian Diplomacy and Eastern Europe, 1914–1917" (1963), "Soviet Politics Since Khrushchev" (1968) and many others. In addition to writing, Dallin edited the 1992's "Civil-Military Relations in the Soviet Union".
After his retirement from all his positions, Dallin continued to write, teach and participate in academic activities.
(This book represents an analysis of the 1983 Korean airli...)
1985(This book is intended to fill the need for up-to-date mat...)
1991(Exploring Soviet and Russian history, politics and foreig...)
2009(In this important book, an eminent specialist on Soviet f...)
1962(This collection of over fifty top-secret letters are draw...)
2000Dallin was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, of which he also served as a president from 1984 till 1985.
Dallin was something of a maverick, tending to concentrate on aspects of Soviet history and policy making, that were neglected or viewed as irrelevant by other academics.
In 1953, Alexander married Florence Cherry, the daughter of a Methodist minister. Their marriage produced three children - Linda, Natasha and Andrew. When Dallin's first marriage ended in divorce, he married his second wife, Gail W. Lapidus, a professor of political science.