Mosely, Philip Edward, , Massachusetts 1905 1972 Male Sovietologist Sovietologist, was born in Westfield, Massachussets, the son of Arthur Chauncey Mosely, a builder and contractor, and Eliza Harvey Rust.
On Apr. 2, 1930, Mosely married Ruth Bissell, the daughter of Douglas Bissell.
Raised an Episcopalian, Mosely received his primary education at public schools in Westfield and received a B. A. in 1926 and a Ph. D. in 1933 from Harvard University.
While he was pursuing his doctoral studies at Harvard, he taught history at Princeton University (1929 - 1930) and conducted historical research in Moscow (1930 - 1932).
In 1933 Mosely became a history instructor at Union College in Schenectady, N. Y. His first book was published in 1934, entitled Russian Diplomacy and the Opening of the Eastern Question in 1838 and 1839.
Mosely's paternal ancestors had immigrated to America from England in 1630.
In 1935, after receiving a fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, he left teaching to conduct research in the Balkans for two years.
Upon his return to the United States in 1936, Mosely joined the faculty of Cornell University as assistant professor, becoming associate professor in 1940.
He remained at Cornell until 1942, when he left to serve in the U. S. Department of State during World War II.
While at Columbia, Mosely held other noteworthy advisory positions.
From 1952 to 1961 he served as director of a research program on the Soviet Union for the Council on Foreign Relations; from 1955 to 1963 he was director of studies for the council.
Mosely penned close to two hundred articles and essays on East-West relations, Western Europe, and Soviet foreign policy during his career.
In 1960 he completed a collection of articles, The Kremlin and World Politics.
Mosely was a small, dark-haired man who was described as having "a normally equable temperament, " except when provoked.
He is reported to have lambasted the scholar E. H. Carr when Carr once made an offhand allusion to American motives.
Mosely was also confident in his scholarly opinions.
[An obituary is in the New York Times, Jan. 14, 1972. ]
At the State Department, Mosely, a Democrat, served as assistant chief in the division of political studies and chief of the division of territorial studies, as well as adviser to Secretary of State Cordell Hull and the U. S. delegation at the Moscow Conference in 1943.
In a 1961 article in the New York Times Book Review, Mosely attacked Nikita S. Khrushchev, the Soviet premier, for failing to understand the "forces of freedom" and urged the Communist leader to "broaden his perspective. "
They had two children.
