Background
Jacobs, Walter Darnell was born on March 11, 1922 in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, United States. Son of John Clayton and Patience Caroline (Goodlander) Jacobs.
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Alongside the names of such giants of Soviet history as Brezhnev, Khrush chev, Kirov, Kosygin, Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky, the name of Mikhail Vasil'evich Fronze may seem to be out of place. In spite of a most impres sive flowering of Western scholarship on various aspects of the Soviet Union, the figure of Fronze remains relatively undeveloped. It is, in fact, quite possible to produce a history of the Soviet Union in which he is not 1 mentioned. It has been done several times. The Western neglect of Fronze is not duplicated in works produced in the Soviet Union. There, Frunze is almost invariably treated as a major figure and is popularly regarded as one of the great strategists of the early days of the Soviet republic. He holds, as well, a high place in the ranks of the "Old Bolsheviks. " How are these constrasts between the Western and the Soviet scholarly positions to be explained? Several factors account for the high position occupied by Frunze in Soviet historiography. He was a military hero. He had a long record of revolution ary activity. He died at an early age and did not become involved in the purges and other excesses of Stalin's later career. In short, Frunze's short, active life and his contributions to the revolution suited him almost ideally to the role of historical hero. Western scholars have neglected him, probably, for a number of reasons.
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Jacobs, Walter Darnell was born on March 11, 1922 in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, United States. Son of John Clayton and Patience Caroline (Goodlander) Jacobs.
Bachelor of Science, Columbia University, 1955. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy in Public Law, Columbia University, 1961.
Second in command Lieutenant, United States Army, 1943; advanced through grades to colonel, United States Army, 1964; exchange specialist, Library. Congress, Washington, 1957-1959; research specialist, Special Operations Research Office, Washington, 1959-1961; assistant professor then professor, U. Maryland., College Park, 1961-1965; associate professor, U. Maryland., College Park, 1965-1968; professor, U. Maryland., College Park, 1968-1981. European advisory county Department State.
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Chairman Charleston (South Carolina.) Republican Party, 1995-1997. Member Sons of the American Revolution, American Africal Affairs Assh. (chairman 1971-1978), Washington Friends Antibolshevik Block Nations, World Peace Society (director 1967-1981), American Military Institute, American Political Science Association Defense Orientation Conference Association (director) 1971-1974), Mukumburu Surf Club, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Pi Sigma Alpha.
Married Mary Anderson Stout, October 27, 1978. 1 child, Sara Downs.