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Baron, Samuel Haskell was born on May 24, 1921 in New York City. Son of James and Dinah (Bader) Baron.
(This is the first biography in a Western language of G.V....)
This is the first biography in a Western language of G.V. Plekhanov, the man who almost singlehandedly launched the movement that was to culminate in the Bolshevik Revolution. This study of Plakhanov's life, which spanned the eventful period of Russia's history from the Crimean War through the Bolshevik upheaval, illuminates the origins and vicissitudes of Russian Marxism.
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( This is the first complete story, long hidden by the So...)
This is the first complete story, long hidden by the Soviet Union, of the attack by government forces on striking workers in 1962, resulting in 21 dead and hundreds of others wounded or imprisoned. Only with the advent of glasnost in the 1980s did the tight lid of secrecy placed on the entire episode by the Soviets begin slowly to lift.
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(American historians of Russia have always been an intrepi...)
American historians of Russia have always been an intrepid lot. Their research trips were spent not in Cambridge or Paris, Rome or Berlin, but in Soviet dormitories with official monitors. They were seeking access to a historical record that was purposefully shrouded in secrecy, boxed up and locked away in closed archives. Their efforts, indeed their curiosity itself, sometimes raised suspicion at home as well as in a Soviet Union that did not want to be known even while it felt misunderstood. This lively volume brings together the reflections of twenty leading specialists on Russian history representing four generations. They relate their experiences as historians and researchers in Russia from the first academic exchanges in the 1950s through the Cold War years, detente, glasnost, and the first post-Soviet decade. Their often moving, acutely observed stories of Russian academic life record dramatic change both in the historical profession and in the society that they have devoted their careers to understanding.
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Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 400 pages; Description: 400 p. Illus, frontis; 24 cm. Subjects: Plekhanov, Georgii Valentinovich (1856-1918). Notes: Includes bibliography; includes index.
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Baron, Samuel Haskell was born on May 24, 1921 in New York City. Son of James and Dinah (Bader) Baron.
Bachelor of Science, Cornell University, 1942. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, 1952.
Instructor history, U. Tennessee, 1948-1953; visiting lecturer, Northwestern University, 1953-1954; visiting lecturer, U. Missouri, 1954-1955; visiting lecturer, U. Nebraska, 1955-1956; from assistant professor to professor, Grinnell (Iowa) College, 1956-1966; professor, University of California-San Diego, 1966-1972; Alumni Distinguished professor of history, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1972-1991; professor emeritus, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1991; chairman, Conference Slavic and Eastern European History, 1976.
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( This is the first complete story, long hidden by the So...)
(American historians of Russia have always been an intrepi...)
(Plekhanov's importance in Russian history is beyond dispu...)
(This is the first biography in a Western language of G.V....)
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Served from private to captain Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Member American Association of University Professors (council 1962-1965), American History Association, American Association Advancement Slavic Studies, Early Slavic Studies Association (president 1991).
Married Virginia Wilson, December 22, 1949. Children– Sheila, Carla, Laura.