The Soviet Empire Reconsidered
Photo of Adam B. Ulam by Christine H. Porto
The Soviet Empire Reconsidered
Essays in Honor of Adam B. Ulam
Edited By
Sanford R. Lieberman, David E. Powell, Carol R. Saivetz, and Sarah M. Terry
First published 1994 by Westview Press, Inc.
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Contents
Abbott Gleason
Mary Ellen Fischer
Sanford R. Lieberman
Norman M. Naimark
Mark R. Beissinger
David E. Powell
Paul Marantz
Angela E. Stent
Mikhail Tsypkin
Carol R. Saivetz
Sarah Meiklejohn Terry
We wish to thank the staff of the Russian Research Center--Mary Towle (now retired), Michele Wong Albanese, Christine Porto, and Alan Fortescue--for their help and support. We particularly want to express our appreciation to Christine Porto for organizing the production of the manuscript and to Alan Fortescue for his knowledge of the intricacies of computers and for typing the manuscript. We would also like to thank Rebecca Ritke of Westview Press for her editorial advice. Finally, we wish to acknowledge Adam B. Ulam for his inspiration and his friendship.
Sanford R. Lieberman
David E. Powell
Carol R. Saivetz
Sarah M. Terry
Mark R. Beissinger is chair of the Russian and East European Studies Program and associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. He is author of the book Scientific Management, Socialist Discipline, and Soviet Power (1988), as well as contributing co-editor of The Nationalities Factor in Soviet Politics and Society (1990).
Mary Ellen Fischer is the Joseph C. Palamountain, Jr. Professor of Government at Skidmore College. In addition to her book, Nicolae Ceausescu: A Study in Political Leadership (1989), she has published numerous articles and chapters on politics in Romania and the Soviet Union.
Abbott Gleason is the Keeney Professor of History at Brown University. He has written widely on Russian cultural and intellectual history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of The Generations of Totalitarianism (1995).
Sanford R. Lieberman is an associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts--Boston and a fellow of the Russian Research Center, Harvard University. His research interests and publications have focused on the Communist Party and crisis management in the USSR during World War II.
Paul Marantz is associate professor of political science at the University of British Columbia--Vancouver. His publications include The Decline of the Soviet Union and the Transformation of the Middle East (1994) and From Lenin to Gorbachev: Changing Perspectives on East-West Relations (1988).
Norman Naimark is professor of history and director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at Stanford University. He has
recently finished a book entitled The Russians in Germany: The History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949.
David E, Powell is the Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Russian Studies at Wheaton College and a fellow at Harvard University's Russian Research Center. He has written widely on social and economic problems in the Soviet Union and its successor states.
Carol R. Saivetz is a fellow at the Russian Research Center, Harvard University. She is the author of numerous articles on Soviet and Russian foreign policy and is a contributing coeditor of In Search of Pluralism: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics (1994). Her current research focuses on the evolution of post-communist Russian foreign policy.
Angela Stent is an associate professor of government at Georgetown University and serves as a consultant to the US Department of State and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. Her current research focuses on post-Cold War Russia's relations with Germany, Ukraine, Poland, and other East Central European states.
Sarah M. Terry is an associate professor of political science at Tufts University. She is the author of Poland's Place in Europe (1983) and the contributing editor of Soviet Policy in Eastern Europe (1984). She is currently working on a book on the transitions in Central and Eastern Europe.
Mikhail Tsypkin is an associate professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. His publications and research have focused on the Soviet military and currently on Russian military affairs.
The Soviet Empire Reconsidered
Sanford R. Lieberman , David E. Powell , Carol R. Saivetz , Sarah M. Terry
The essays in this volume have been written to honor Adam B. Ulam, Gurney Professor Emeritus of History and Government at Harvard University, and for many years the Director of the university's Russian Research Center. The editors and contributors have known him for varying lengths of time--ranging from twelve to thirty years. For all of us, Adam has been a mentor, colleague, and friend; he is a comrade in the best sense of the term.
Born in 1922 in Lwow, a city which was then in Poland but now in Ukraine, Adam came to the United States on the eve of World War II. Blessed with a classical European education, fluent in Russian, French, Latin, and of course his native Polish, he was admitted to Brown University. He received his B.A. in 1943 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1947. He was also awarded an Honorary LL.D. from Brown in 1983. After a brief period teaching at the University of Wisconsin, he joined Harvard's Government Department in 1947. When the Russian Research Center was created in 1948, Adam was asked to join the staff, although by his own admission he knew relatively little about the subject. But as anyone who knows him can attest, Adam learns quickly--very quickly.
At the beginning of his career, Adam taught courses dealing with the history and politics of the British Empire. During this period, he transformed his doctoral dissertation into his first book, The Philosophical Foundations of English Socialism (1951). But, as the British colonies gained their independence, it became clear that Adam's subject was shrinking, if not disappearing. As a result--he is fond of saying--he decided to switch to a field that was expanding, i.e., the Soviet Empire. The rest of his prodigious career has been spent analyzing the rise and fall of the so-called "socialist commonwealth."
