Background
Thaden, Edward Carl was born on April 24, 1922 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Edward Carl and Astrid (Engvik) Thaden.
(The first new answers to the 'Eastern Question' in over t...)
The first new answers to the 'Eastern Question' in over thirty years, based on previously unused sources published by the Soviet Government. For a century the question of who would inherit the estate of the 'sick man of Europe' troubled the chanceries of the great powers. (Indeed, an epilogue was being played out on Cyprus as late as 1964.) In 1912 however, the Christian states of the Balkans, taking matters into their own hands, formed an alliance and drove the Turks almost completely out of Europe. Russia had obviously played a role in forming the alliance, and according to the traditional view her policy in 1912 was governed by a sense of 'historic mission,' the drive for warm-water ports, and dreams of possessing Constantinople. In reality St. Petersburg pursued a defensive policy: With pressing internal problems in the wake of the 1905 revolution, the tsarist government wanted to prevent war but at the same time had to defend its interests in the Black Sea and maintain prestige and influence in the Balkans.Sasonov, the Russian Foreign Minister, was unable to restrain the Balkan allies. Nevertheless, as the author demonstrates, he acted as a responsible statesman, maintained his government's influence in the Balkans, limited Austrian freedom of action, and convinced the British and French of Russia's sincerity and desire for peace.
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(Historicism may be considered «one of the greatest revolu...)
Historicism may be considered «one of the greatest revolutions in Western thought» (F. Meinecke). Edward C. Thaden has examined in depth the rise of historicism in Russia. Focusing on the paradigm shift in the Russian historical thought from Enlightenment to historicism, Dr. Thaden begins in the eighteenth century and ends in 1879 with the death of S. M. Solov'ev, author of a monumental twenty-nine-volume history of Russia.
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Thaden, Edward Carl was born on April 24, 1922 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Edward Carl and Astrid (Engvik) Thaden.
Bachelor, University Washington, 1944. Student, University Zurich, Switzerland, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, University Paris, 1950.
Instructor Russian history, Pennsylvania State University, 1952-1955;
assistant professor, Pennsylvania State University, 1955-1958;
associate professor, Pennsylvania State University, 1958-1964;
professor, Pennsylvania State University, 1964-1968. Visiting professor Indiana U., 1957, U. Marburg, 1965, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1980, U.Halle, German Democratic Republic, 1988, U. Helsinki, Finland, 1990. Professor.U. Illinois, Chicago, since 1968, department chairman history, 1971-1973.
Editorial consultant Canada Review Studies in Nationalism, 1973-1978. Visiting research scholar Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy Sciences, 1975, 88, 90. Ford Foundation project principal researcher, 1975-1978.
United States representative to International Congress of History Sciences, 1980. Project director National Endowment for Humanities grant, 1980-1982.
(The first new answers to the 'Eastern Question' in over t...)
(Historicism may be considered «one of the greatest revolu...)
Served to lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946. Member American History Association (life), National History Center (founding member), American Association for Advancement Slavic Studies (president Midwest branch 1975-1976, executive secretary 1980-1982), Chicago Consortium for Slavic and Eastern European Studies (president 1982-1984), Baltische Historische Kommission, Göttingen (correspondent member since 1985), Commission International des Etudes Historiques Slaves (vice president 1985-1995, president 1995-2000, pres.d'honneur since 2000).
Married Marianna Theresia Forster, August 7, 1952.