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Understanding the Cold War

A Historian's Personal Reflections

By: Adam Bruno Ulam

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Understanding the Cold War

A Historian's Personal Reflections

By: Adam Bruno Ulam

Understanding the Cold War is the story of a man and an epoch. Its telling moves between detailed personal history and an Olympian assessment of the origins, significant events, and outcome of the Cold War. Professor Ulam describes his hometown, family, and early education, as well as his departure, with his brother, for the U.S. just days before the Nazi invasion of Poland would have trapped them. Then follows reminiscences of his college and Harvard years, all rich with anecdote and insight, and his thoughts as an acknowledged expert on Soviet affairs. The volume offers basic antidotes to simplistic explanations. Whether discussing the Kirov assassination or the Moscow Trials of the so-called Trotskyist Bloc, or the nationalist basis of disputes between China and Russia during the Vietnam War period, Ulam avoids the sensational and the speculative in favor of the the empirical and the evidentiary. The core segments of the work review the Cold War from the belly of the Stalinist and later post-Stalinist communist system. And in a section entitled "The Beginning of the End," Ulam discusses the Gorbachev interregnum and the early years of the transition from communism to democracy. He well appreciates how the ease of the transition does not betoken a simple movement to the democratic camp. In contemplating the changing nature of the new political configuration, one could hardly have a better guide to clarity and authenticity than Adam Ulam. Reviewing Understanding the Cold War, Stephen Kotkin, director of Princeton's Russian Studies Program, observed "...And whereas some celebrated analysts, such as John Maynard Keynes, had dismissed Marxism as 'illogical and dull,' Ulam highlighted the doctrine's intricacy and comprehensiveness, which, he argued, explained its attraction not just to peasants, but also to intellectuals." "There is really only one legitimate measure of an autobiography, and that is its ability to bring the author to life for the reader, giving a sense of who the person was and what it must have been like to have known him or her. On that score, Adam Ulam's [Understand the Cold War] succeed on every level. To spend time with this book is to spend time with Adam himself. ... Adam Ulam's autobiography stands on its own, giving a clear picture of both the man and his career and displaying his analytical prowess and pe4rsonal charm in abundance." -Thomas P. M. Barnett, Project Muse Adam B. Ulam (1922-2000) taught at Harvard University from 1947 until his retirement in 1992. He was Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, and twice director of the Russian Research Center. He was the author of 19 books, including Prophets and Conspirators in pre-Revolutionary Russia (published by Transaction), Stalin: The Man and His Era, Lenin and the Bolsheviks, The Unfinished Revolution, Philosophical Foundations of English Socialism, and a political novel: The Kirov Affair. Paul Hollander is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Massachusettes, Amherst, and a fellow of the David Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. His books include Soviet and American Society, Political Pilgrims, The Survival of the Adversary Culture, and Anti-Americanism.

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The Bolsheviks

the intellectual and political history of the triumph of communism in Russia : with a new preface

By: Adam Bruno ULAM,Adam Bruno Ulam

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The Bolsheviks

the intellectual and political history of the triumph of communism in Russia : with a new preface

By: Adam Bruno ULAM,Adam Bruno Ulam

The rise of the Bolsheviks is an epic Russian story that now has a definitive end. The major historian of the subject, Adam Ulam, has enlarged his classic work with a new Preface that puts the revolutionary moment, and especially Lenin, in perspective for our modern age.

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Harvard University Press

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0674044533

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Ideologies and Illusions

Revolutionary Thought from Herzen to Solzhenitsyn

By: Adam B. Ulam

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Ideologies and Illusions

Revolutionary Thought from Herzen to Solzhenitsyn

By: Adam B. Ulam

In a book of keen perception and vast sweep, a foremost scholar examines one hundred years of Russian revolutionary thought and the men who shaped and were caught up in it. Adam Ulam displays an unusual ability to penetrate the core of the Soviet mind as it evolved and was encapsulated in history. Why did the Russians sign a treaty with Hitler? Why did they build a Berlin Wall, rattle missiles, and then sign a nuclear-test-ban treaty with President Kennedy? Why do they fear Titoism? Why was detente fostered when Nixon was president? By reflecting on the psychology, ideology, and frenetic activity of revolutionary Russians, Ulam leads us to answers. Ulam's ability to explain events by tracing the continuities in the Russian mentality makes this work a special achievement in Soviet studies and intellectual history.

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Understanding the Cold War

A Historian's Personal Reflections

By: Adam Bruno Ulam

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A Historian's Personal Reflections

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Prophets and Conspirators in Pre-Revolutionary Russia

By: Adam Bruno Ulam

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Prophets and Conspirators in Pre-Revolutionary Russia

By: Adam Bruno Ulam

In this magisterial and exciting book, Ulam offers a brilliant history of Russian political and intellectual life in those critical years from 1855 to 1884 and describes the successive conspiracies that shook the edifice of tsarist autocracy.

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The Bolsheviks

the intellectual and political history of the triumph of communism in Russia : with a new preface

By: Adam Bruno ULAM,Adam Bruno Ulam

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the intellectual and political history of the triumph of communism in Russia : with a new preface

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Understanding the Cold War

A Historian's Personal Reflections

By: Adam B. Ulam

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A Historian's Personal Reflections

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Prophets and Conspirators in Prerevolutionary Russia

By: Adam B. Ulam

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By: Adam B. Ulam

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Ideologies and Illusions

Revolutionary Thought from Herzen to Solzhenitsyn

By: Adam B. Ulam

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Revolutionary Thought from Herzen to Solzhenitsyn

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Stalin

The Man and His Era

By: Adam Bruno Ulam

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Stalin

The Man and His Era

By: Adam Bruno Ulam

In this biography of Joseph Stalin, Adam Ulam explores the secret of his power, the hold his memory still has over the imagination, the suffering he inflicted upon his own society, the unprecedented triumphs achieved by the Soviet Union under his leadership and the mysteries surrounding his death.

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Stalin

The Man and His Era

By: Adam B. Ulam

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Stalin

The Man and His Era

By: Adam B. Ulam

Perestroika and glasnost have unleashed unprecedented criticism of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, and the terrible legacy of his regime has been acknowledged by Mikhail Gorbachev.

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Beacon Press

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080707005X

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Dangerous Relations

The Soviet Union in World Politics, 1970-1982

By: Adam B. Ulam

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Dangerous Relations

The Soviet Union in World Politics, 1970-1982

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Traces the development of the foreign policy of the Soviet Union and analyzes the country's relations with the United States and China.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195034244

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The Unfinished Revolution

Marxism And Communism In The Modern World --revised Edition

By: Adam B Ulam

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The Unfinished Revolution

Marxism And Communism In The Modern World --revised Edition

By: Adam B Ulam

Marxism has been the most pervasive and widespread ideological phenomenon of our times, but seldom, if ever, has it been found in its form. Whenever the Marxist ideology has been historically significant, it has been so as a beneficiary and associate of another set of political beliefs and passions. As a contender for power it seeks to express the dreams and yearnings of societies caught in the painful process of modernization and industrialization. In power it tends to pay lip service to its lofty goals, but associates them with old-fashioned nationalism. Practice does not reflect theory. Ruling elites and parties surpass traditional capitalism in their dedication to political centralization and industrialism at all costs. This revised edition of Adam Ulam's standard work retains the author's summary and critique of Marx's historical, economic, and political arguments. Ulam then examines the relationship of Marxism to other schools of contemporary socialism and to other radical and revolutionary theories. He traces the development of Marxian thought, explains why it has been the potent force in certain societies–while in other societies its influence has been insignificant–and analyzes how Marxism and Leninism have affected the shaping of Russian Communism. Finally Ulam looks at Marxism in the future: the role it will play in the development of the Soviet Union, and how it will affect the contemporary crisis of liberal institutions in the West.

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1000306720

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The Communists

The Story of Power and Lost Illusions, 1948-1991

By: Adam B. Ulam

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The Communists

The Story of Power and Lost Illusions, 1948-1991

By: Adam B. Ulam

Ulam provides a remarkable look at the massive political and intellectual history of Communism, its European roots, its Marxist ideology, its absorption into Russia, its development, and the Revolution under Lenin, which gave Communism its anchor in the geopolitical world. Ulam is Director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard, and is the author of the classic The Bolsheviks.

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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Authorized Translations, Including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts, With a Commentary and Critical Notes

By: Adam Clarke

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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Authorized Translations, Including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts, With a Commentary and Critical Notes

By: Adam Clarke

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

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Book's by Adam B Ulam

Understanding the Cold War

Understanding the Cold War

The Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks

Ideologies and Illusions

Ideologies and Illusions

Understanding the Cold War

Understanding the Cold War

Prophets and Conspirators in Pre-Revolutionary Russia

Prophets and Conspirators in Pre-Revolutionary Russia

The Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks

Understanding the Cold War

Understanding the Cold War

Prophets and Conspirators in Prerevolutionary Russia

Prophets and Conspirators in Prerevolutionary Russia

Ideologies and Illusions

Ideologies and Illusions

Stalin

Stalin

Stalin

Stalin

Dangerous Relations

Dangerous Relations

The Unfinished Revolution

The Unfinished Revolution

The Communists

The Communists

The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Authorized Translations, Including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts, With a Commentary and Critical Notes

The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Authorized Translations, Including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts, With a Commentary and Critical Notes

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