Adam Ulam - Wikipedia Adam Ulam From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Adam Bruno Ulam Adam Ulam Born (1922-04-08)April 8, 1922 Lwów, Poland Died March 28, 2000(2000-03-28) (aged 77) Cambridge, Massachusetts Resting place Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts Occupation political scientist, historian, sovietologist, kremlinologist, author Language English, Polish, Russian Nationality Polish-Jewish Citizenship Polish (before 1939), American (from 1939) Alma mater Brown University, Harvard University Genre non-fiction, political history, political philosophy Subject Political Science, History, Sovietology, Kremlinology, Education Notable works Expansion and Coexistence: The History of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-67 (1968); Idealism and the Development of English Socialism (Ph.D. thesis, 1947) Notable awards Delancey K. Jay Prize of Harvard University (1947) Spouse Mary Hamilton (Molly) Burgwin Ulam (m. 1963, divorced 1991) Children Alexander Stanislaw Ulam; Joseph Howard Ulam Relatives Stanislaw Ulam (brother) Website adamulam.org Adam Bruno Ulam (8 April 1922 – 28 March 2000) was a Polish-American historian of Jewish descent and political scientist at Harvard University. Ulam was one of the world's foremost authorities and top experts in Sovietology and Kremlinology, he authored multiple books and articles in these academic disciplines. Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 3 Books 4 References and External Links Biography[edit] Adam B. Ulam was born on April 8, 1922, in Lwów then a major city in Poland, now Lviv in Ukraine, to the parents of a wealthy well-assimilated Jewish family. After graduating from high school, on or around August 20, 1939, his 13-years-older brother Stanisław Ulam, a famous mathematician and key contributor to the Manhattan Project, took him to the United States to continue his education. Their father had, at the last minute, changed their departure date from September 3 to August 20, most likely saving Adam's life since on September 1 the Second World War began, with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland. Apart from the brothers Ulam, all other family members who remained in Poland perished 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 Brown University and taught briefly at University of Wisconsin–Madison. After studies at Harvard University (1944–1947), he got a doctoral degree under William Yandell Elliott for his thesis Idealism and the Development of English Socialism, which was awarded the 1947 Delancey K. Jay Prize. He became a faculty member at Harvard in 1947, he received tenure in 1954, and until his 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 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 therein. Works[edit] 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, Titoism and the Cominform (1952), based on his doctoral thesis, he argued that Communists' focus on certain goals blinded them to disastrous socioeconomic side effects that had the capacity to weaken their hold on power. His book The Unfinished Revolution: An Essay on the Sources of Influence of Marxism and Communism (1960) explored Marxist thought. His two books The 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 Kirov Affair (1988), about the Soviet 1930s. In one of his last books, The Communists: The Story of Power and Lost Illusions 1948-1991, published in 1992, the year he retired, he commented on 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[edit] Many of the books are online and free to borrow for two weeks A History of Soviet Russia (1997) Dangerous Relations: Soviet Union in World Politics, 1970-82 (1983) Expansion and Coexistence, The History of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-67 (1968), online free to borrow Ideologies and Illusions: Revolutionary Thought from Herzen to Solzhenitsyn (1976), online free to borrow In the Name of the People: Prophets and Conspirators in Prerevolutionary Russia (1977) online free to borrow 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) Philosophical Foundations of English Socialism (1964) Russia's Failed Revolutions: From the Decembrists to the Dissidents (1981) Stalin: The Man and His Era (1973), online free to borrow The Bolsheviks: The Intellectual and Political History of the Triumph of Communism in Russia (1965) The Communists: The Story of Power and Lost Illusions, 1948-1991 (1992) The Fall of the American University (1972) The Kirov Affair (1988) - note: a novel, online free to borrow The New Face of Soviet Totalitarianism (1963) The Rivals. America and Russia since World War II (1971), online free to borrow The Russian Political System (1974), online free to borrow The Unfinished Revolution: An Essay on the Sources of Influence of Marxism and Communism (1960), online free to borrow Titoism and the Cominform (1952) Understanding the Cold War: A Historian's Personal Reflections - note: a memoir (2000) References and External Links[edit] 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 Crystal Reference Encyclopedia on Adam (Bruno) Ulam Harvard News and Events: Memorial Minute: Adam Bruno Ulam read by Timothy J. Colton in 2002 and printed in the Harvard University Gazette Adam Ulam's memorial page, with obituaries, biography, letters and other items The Harvard Gazette obituary The Washington Post obituary The New York Times obituary Information at ''Find a Grave'' Authority control BIBSYS: 90183368 BNE: XX1011137 BNF: cb119273196 (data) CANTIC: a10166580 CiNii: DA00524147 GND: 120648962 ISNI: 0000 0001 0931 168X LCCN: n50046813 LNB: 000034054 MGP: 240926 NDL: 00459344 NKC: skuk0005677 NLA: 36269311 NLI: 000307630 NLK: KAC2018I3350 NLP: A18087085 NSK: 000001601 NTA: 068313268 PLWABN: 9810680034505606 RERO: 02-A003918477 SELIBR: 233403 SNAC: w6b41dgx SUDOC: 027172244 Trove: 1239826 VIAF: 108347004 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n50046813 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adam_Ulam&oldid=979599461" Categories: 1922 births 2000 deaths Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe) American agnostics Jewish agnostics Jewish American historians Historians of Russia Harvard University faculty Brown University alumni Harvard University alumni Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States People from Lwów Voivodeship Deaths from lung cancer University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers American anti-communists American male non-fiction writers Hidden categories: Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers Wikipedia articles with CINII identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with LNB identifiers Wikipedia articles with MGP identifiers Wikipedia articles with NDL identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLI identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLK identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLP identifiers Wikipedia articles with NSK identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with RERO identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers AC with 25 elements Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Deutsch Esperanto Français Magyar 日本語 Polski Русский Edit links This page was last edited on 21 September 2020, at 17:13 (UTC). 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