Background
Shtromas was born in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Shtromas was born in Kaunas, Lithuania.
He studied at Vilnius University, and later finished at Moscow State University.
During the Nazi occupation of Lithuania he was imprisoned into Ghetto. After he was saved from the Ghetto, Shtromas was harbored by Antanas Sniečkus. Soon afterward Shtromas became a critic of the Soviet regime and was forced to emigrate.
In 1973 he settled in the United Kingdom.
There he became professor of Bradford University, and later worked in Salford University, and, until his death, at Hillsdale College. Aleksandras Shtromas died on 12 June 1999 in the United States.
To fight communism: why and how? The end of "isms"?: reflections on the fate of ideological politics after Communism"s collapse (edited, 1994).