Background
Vojtech Mastny was born on February 26, 1936 in Prague, Czech Republic; the son of Antonin and Jindriska (Rybakova) Mastny.
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Vojtech Mastny
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Mastny received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Career
Mastny has been professor of history and international relations at Columbia, University of Illinois, Boston University and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, as well as professor of strategy at United States. Naval War College, Fulbright professor at the University of Bonn, Senior Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Senior Fellow at the National Security Archive. He has been considered one of the leading American authorities on Soviet affairs. He is the coordinator of the Parallel History Project.
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In 1996-1998 he was the first researcher awarded Manfred Wörner Fellowship by NATO. Mastny's books include The Czechs under Nazi Rule, which won him the Clarke F. Ansley award in 1971, Russia's Road to the Cold War (1979), The Helsinki Process and the Reintegration of Europe (1992) and The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years, which won the American Historical Association's 1997 George L. Beer Prize.
Membership
Vojtech Mastny is a member of Council European Studies, American Association for Advancement of Slavic Studies and American Committee on History of Second World War.
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Religion
Roman Catholic