Background
Raeff, Marc was born on July 28, 1923 in Moscow, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Came to the United States, 1941, naturalized, 1943. Son of Isaak and Victoria (Bychowsky) Raeff.
(Examines Russian history from the early eighteenth centur...)
Examines Russian history from the early eighteenth century until the Revolution, discusses the causes of the czars' decline, and describes the social and political forces in czarist Russia.
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Raeff, Marc was born on July 28, 1923 in Moscow, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Came to the United States, 1941, naturalized, 1943. Son of Isaak and Victoria (Bychowsky) Raeff.
He attended schools in German, French and English, but his native tongue was Russian. He attended Harvard, working with Professor Michael Karpovich, whose trained numerous scholars.
He held the Bakhmeteff chair in Russian Studies. Harvard historian Richard Pipes says, "He was very much interested in the Western aspect of Russian culture. He was a pillar of Russian historical studies in this country."
The government sent them to Berlin to oversee quality control on machinery destined for Russia.
They refused to return to Moscow in 1927.
In 1933 they moved to Paris. They moved to the United States. in 1941.
He wrote in English, French, German, and Russian, and also read Italian and Polish. Raeff served in the United States. Army in the war as an interpreter.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1950.
He taught at Clark University from 1949 until 1961, when he moved to Columbia. His research focused on the Russian Empire, with an emphasis on the Russian intelligentsia at home and in diaspora. Wirtschafter argues that he always "stressed the complexity and dynamism of the social and political arrangements that defined imperial Russia." He directed numerous Doctor of Philosophy dissertations.
His teaching and writing was free of ideological overtones of the sort encouraged by the Cold War.
He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1957.
( Marc Raeff investigates the early development of the Ru...)
(Examines Russian history from the early eighteenth centur...)
("An autocracy tempered by assassination", clever foreigne...)
("An autocracy tempered by assassination", clever foreigne...)
(Russian Studies, History)
Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946.
Married Lillian Gottesman, September 24, 1951. Children: Anne, Catherine.