Howard Biddulph
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Howard Lowell Biddulph (28 March 1935 – 23 May 2022) born in Rexburg, Idaho, was a political scientist whose work focused on the government of the Soviet Union. At various times, he was a faculty member at Brigham Young University (BYU), University of Victoria, and Rutgers University.
As a young man Biddulph served as a Mormon missionary in the Canadian mission, based in Toronto and covering eastern Canada from 1955 to 1957.[1] He earned his bachelor's degree at Brigham Young University and received his master's degree and Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington, where he wrote his dissertation on "Karl Marx's Early Thought in the Soviet Union". Biddulph began his academic career as a professor at Rutgers University. He was chair of the political science department at the University of Victoria. After his time as mission president Biddulph was a professor at BYU. In that position he led many study abroad tours to Ukraine.[2]
Biddulph was the first president of the Victoria British Columbia
Biddulph and his wife Colleen are the parents of five children.
Biddulph also wrote the book The Morning Breaks (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1996). Articles by Biddulph include the 1983 article "Local Interest Articulation at CPSU Congress", "Soviet Intellectual Dissent as a Political Counter Culture" in
References
External links
- Howard Biddulph at the MLCA Database
- Church News country information for Ukraine
- Robert J. McCue, "The Saints on Vancouver Island", Ensign, April 1976, p. 45.
- Deseret News Church Almanac. 2010 edition. page 447.
- All Books entry of Biddulph
- list of useful primary sources including Biddulph's book
- Global Mormonism Project entry on Ukraine Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine