Adam Bruno Ulam

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Adam Bruno Ulam (born April 8, 1922 in Lemberg , Poland , † March 28, 2000 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was an American political scientist , modern historian and university professor.

Life

Youth and education

Adam Ulam came from a Polish-Jewish middle class family. His father was a lawyer in Lviv, the older brother Stanisław Marcin (1909-1984), a mathematician, was involved in the Manhattan project and the development of the hydrogen bomb .

Adam emigrated to the United States in August 1939, shortly before the attack on Poland . His survivors perished in the Holocaust in their homeland. He graduated from Brown University with a bachelor's degree (BA) in 1943, taught at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and received his doctorate in 1947 as a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph. D. ) from Harvard University in Massachusetts .

He was granted US citizenship in 1949. In 1965 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1989 to the American Philosophical Society .

Scientific work

From 1973 to 1974 and from 1980 to 1992, he served as director of the Russian Research Center (Russian Research Center). Since 1959 he was professor of history, philosophy and political science at Harvard University, 1953-1955 assistant at the Center for International Studies (Center for International Studies) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Ulam worked for around 45 years as a research associate, researcher, consultant and university professor until his retirement in 1992 at Harvard University. He wrote over 20 monographs a . a. about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , Josef Stalin , Leon Trotsky , Josip Broz Tito , Alexander Herzen , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , Sergei Mironowitsch Kirow as well as about Marxism , Communism , Cominform and Bolshevism , the Russian Revolutions of 1917 , Titoism and the Cold War .

Publications (selection)

  • ( posthumous ): Understanding the Cold War. A Historian's Personal Reflections . Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick 2002.
  • The Communists. The Story of Power and Lost Illusions, 1918-1991 . Scribner, New York 1992.
  • The Kirov Affair . (Novel) 1988.
  • Dangerous Relations. The Soviet Union in World Politics, 1970–1982 . Oxford University Press, New York 1983.
  • Russia's failed revolutions. From the Decembrists to the Dissidents . Backs Books, New York 1981.
    • German translation by Karl Heinz Siber: Russia's failed revolutions. From the Decembrists to the dissidents . Piper Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-492-02741-5 .
  • The unfinished revolution. Marxism and Communism in the modern World . 1979.
  • In the Name of the People. Prophets and Conspirators in Prerevolutionary Russia . Viking Press, New York 1977.
  • The Cold War According to Kennan . In: Commentery 1/1977, pp. 66-69.
  • Ideologies and Illusions. Revolutionary Thought from Hearts to Solzhenitsyn . 1976.
  • with Samuel Hutchinson Beer: Patterns of Government. The Major Political Systems of Europe . Random House, New York 1973.
  • Stalin, the Man and His Era . Viking Press, New York 1973.
    • German translation Götz Pommer: Stalin, Colossus of Power . Bechtle Verlag, Esslinger am Neckar 1977, ISBN 3-7628-0375-7 .
  • The Rivals. America and Russia since World War II . Viking Press, New York 1971.
  • Titoism and the Cominform . Greenwood Press, Cambridge 1971.
  • Expansion and Coexistence. The History of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-1967 . Frederick A. Praeger, New York 1969.
  • Lenin and the Bolsheviks . Fontana 1969.
  • The "Essential Love" of Simone de Beauvoir . In: Problems of Communism 3/1966, pp. 62-64.
  • The Bolsheviks. The Intellectual and Political History of the Triumph of Communism in Russia . 1965.
    • German translation Helmut Lindemann : Die Bolschewiki. Prehistory and course of the communist revolution in Russia . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1967.
  • The new Face of Soviet Totalitarianism . Harvard University 1960; Praeger 1963.
  • The Unfinished Revolution. An Essay on the Sources of Influence of Marxism and Communism . Random House, New York 1960.
  • Philosophical Foundations of English Socialism . Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1951.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mark Kramer: Memorial Notice: Adam Bruno Ulam (1922–2000). Journal of Cold War Studies, No. 2, 2000, archived from the original on July 24, 2014 ; accessed on June 30, 2019 (English).
  2. ^ Member History: Adam B. Ulam. American Philosophical Society, accessed December 29, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ulam, Adam Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist, modern historian and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv , Poland
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 2000
Place of death Cambridge , Massachusetts