Merle Fainsod
Merle Fainsod (born May 2, 1907 in McKees Rocks , Pennsylvania , † February 11, 1972 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was an American political scientist . Most famous is his work on public administration and the Soviet Union . His books “Smolensk under Soviet Rule”, based on documents captured by the German invaders during World War II, and “How Russia is Ruled” (also known as “How the Soviet Union is Governed”) helped with this Establishment of the US-American Soviet Union studies and made him a recognized expert for the Soviet Union in the USA.
In 1950 Fainsod was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 1961 he was a member of the American Philosophical Society .
A well-known student of Fainsod was the political scientist and political advisor Zbigniew Brzeziński .
Individual evidence
- ^ Keys, Barbara: Merle Fainsod. In: Garraty, John; Carnes, Mark. American National Biography. 7. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1999 ISBN 0-19-512786-2 .
- ↑ Carlisle, Donald: Merle Fainsod. In: Utter, Glenn. American Political Scientists: A Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002, ISBN 0-313-31957-X .
- ↑ Member History: Merle Fainsod. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Charles Gati: Zbig: The Strategy and Statecraft of Zbigniew Brzezinski . JHU Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4214-0976-4 ( google.de [accessed on November 29, 2016]).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fainsod, Merle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American political scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | McKees Rocks , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1972 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |