Alexander Dallin

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Alexander Dallin (born May 21, 1924 in Berlin , † July 22, 2000 in Stanford (California) ) was an American historian and director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at Stanford University .

Alexander Dallin was born in Berlin in 1924 as the son of the well-known writer David J. Dallin who emigrated from the Soviet Union . During the Nazi era , the family fled to France in 1940, then to the USA. From 1941 to 1947 he studied at the City College of New York . His studies were interrupted from 1943 to 1946 when he served in the military defense of the US Army. In 1948, Dallin obtained a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University , where he received his Ph.D. in 1953. In the late 1940s he took part in an interview project organized by Harvard University and supported by the US Air Force to interview political refugees from Eastern Europe, mainly the USSR. In the 1950s, he worked at the Russian Research Center at Harvard University and in 1956 received a professorship at the Russian Institute at Columbia University.

1957 appeared Dallin's fundamental study on the German occupation in the USSR "German Rule in Russia", for which he received the Wolfson Prize for History . From 1958 onwards it appeared in German in several editions under the title "Deutsche Herrschaft in Rußland" by Droste- und Athenaeum-Verlag. In 1971, Dallin was appointed Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University and was Director of the University's Center for Russian and East European Studies until his retirement .

Fonts

  • German Rule in Russia 1941–1945. A Study of Occupation Policies . St Martin's Press, New York 1957.
    • German rule in Russia 1941–1945. A Study of Occupation Policy. From the American by Wilhelm [Pferdekamp] and Modeste Pferdekamp. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1958. Unchanged new edition: Athenaeum, Königstein im Taunus 1981, ISBN 3-7610-7242-2 .
  • The Future of Poland. In: Russian Diplomacy and Eastern Europe 1914–1917. Russian Institute Occasional Papers, Columbia University, New York City. King's Crown Press, New York 1963.
  • Soviet Union and United Nations. From the English by Winfried Scharlau . Science and Politics, Cologne 1965.
  • Detente as Soviet Grand Strategy: Its Domestic Roots. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Symposium, Bonn 1984.
  • Odessa, 1941–1944. A Case Study of Soviet Territory under Foreign Rule. Center for Romanian Studies, Iaşi, Oxford, Portland 1998, ISBN 973-98391-1-8 .

as editor:

  • with an introduction by the editor: Between Totalitarianism and Pluralism. Garland, New York, London 1992, ISBN 0-8153-0566-4 .
  • with an introduction by the editor: Political Parties in Russia. International and Area Studies No. 88. University of California, Berkeley 1993, ISBN 0-87725-188-6 .
  • with Gail W. Lapidus: The Soviet System. From Crisis to Collapse. 2nd Edition. Westview Press, Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford 1995, ISBN 0-8133-1876-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (eds.): The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide . Berghahn Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 , pp. 359 f .
personal data
SURNAME Dallin, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 2000
Place of death Stanford (California)