Adam Ulam

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Adam Bruno Ulam
Stanislaw Ulam (brother)
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Adam Bruno Ulam (8 April 1922 – 28 March 2000) was a

Sovietology and Kremlinology
, he authored multiple books and articles in these academic disciplines.

Biography

Adam B. Ulam was born on April 8, 1922, in Lwów, then a major city in

Second World War began, with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland. Apart from the brothers Ulam, all other family members who remained in Poland were murdered in the Holocaust
.

Adam had United States citizenship by 1939, and tried to enlist in the US army twice after the United States entered the war, but was rejected at first for having "relatives living in enemy territory" and later for myopia. He studied at

retirement in 1992 was Gurney Professor of History and Political Science. He directed the Russian Research Center (1973–1974) and was a research associate for the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1953–1955). He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.[1][2]

He married in 1963, divorced in 1991, and had two sons. On March 28, 2000, he died from lung cancer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 77, and was buried at the Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Works

Ulam authored multiple books and articles, and his writings were primarily dedicated to

Sovietology, Kremlinology and the Cold War
. His best-known book is Expansion and Coexistence: The History of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-67 (1968).

In his first book,

Bolsheviks: The Intellectual and Political History of the Triumph of Communism in Russia (1965) and Stalin: The Man and His Era (1973) are internationally recognized as the standard biographies of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin
, respectively. He also wrote two sequels, The Rivals: America and Russia since World War II (1971) and Dangerous Relations: The Soviet Union in World Politics, 1970-1982 (1983).

He also wrote a novel, The

fall of the Soviet Union
, writing that Communists fell from power because their ideology was misguided and the governing elites' growing awareness of their error led to their demoralization, which in turn fed growing tensions and conflicts within and between Communist states.

The major exceptions in his book publications were Philosophical Foundations of English Socialism and The Fall of the American University, a critique of U.S. higher education, written in 1972.

Books

Many of the books are online and free to borrow for two weeks

  • Titoism and the Cominform (1952)
  • Patterns of Government: The Major Political Systems of Europe, with Samuel H. Beer, Harry H. Eckstein, Herbert J. Spiro, and Nicholas Wahl, edited with S.H. Beer (1958)
  • The Unfinished Revolution: An Essay on the Sources of Influence of Marxism and Communism (1960), online
  • The New Face of Soviet Totalitarianism (1963)
  • Philosophical Foundations of English Socialism (1964)
  • The Bolsheviks: The Intellectual and Political History of the Triumph of Communism in Russia (1965)
  • Expansion and Coexistence, The History of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-67 (1968), online
  • The Rivals. America and Russia since World War II (1971), online
  • The Fall of the American University (1972)
  • Stalin: The Man and His Era (1973), online
  • The Russian Political System (1974), online
  • Ideologies and Illusions: Revolutionary Thought from Herzen to Solzhenitsyn (1976), online
  • In the Name of the People: Prophets and Conspirators in Prerevolutionary Russia (1977), online
  • Russia's Failed Revolutions: From the Decembrists to the Dissidents (1981)
  • Dangerous Relations: Soviet Union in World Politics, 1970-82 (1983)
  • The Kirov Affair (1988) - note: a novel, online
  • The Communists: The Story of Power and Lost Illusions, 1948-1991 (1992)
  • A History of Soviet Russia (1997)
  • Understanding the Cold War: A Historian's Personal Reflections - note: a memoir (2000)

References

  1. ^ "Adam Bruno Ulam". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  2. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  • 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, Routledge, 1994
  • Kramer, Mark, "Memorial Notice: Adam Bruno Ulam (1922–2000)", Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, spring 2000, pp. 130–132

External links

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