Robert C. Tucker

Robert Charles Tucker (born May 29, 1918 in Kansas City , Missouri , † July 29, 2010 in Princeton , New Jersey ) was an American political scientist and professor at Princeton University . His research areas included the Soviet Union , Josef Stalin and Marxism .

Tucker earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard University and received his doctorate there after he returned in 1953 from nine years as an attaché at the US embassy in Moscow .

Before joining Princeton University in 1962, Tucker did research at Rand Corporation and taught for two years at Indiana University . At Princeton, he was the first director of the Russian Studies Program. In 1975 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Tucker was married and had a daughter.

Fonts

• Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx . 3. Edition. Transaction Publ., New Brunswick 2001, ISBN 0-7658-0644-4 . (German: Karl Marx. The development of his thinking from philosophy to myth , Beck, Munich 1974 (2nd revised edition; ISBN 3-406-05090-5 )
• Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928–1941 . WW Norton & Co, New York 1990, ISBN 0-393-02881-X .
• Stalin as revolutionary, 1879-1929; a study in history and personality . WW Norton & Co, New York 1973, ISBN 0-393-05487-X .
• The Marxian Revolutionary Idea . WW Norton & Co, New York 1969, LCCN  69-020038 .
• Robert C. Tucker (Ed.): The Marx-Engels Reader . WW Norton & Co, New York 1972, ISBN 0-393-09965-2 .

swell

• Ushma Patel: Robert Tucker, renowned Soviet expert and Stalin biographer, dies. August 3, 2010, archived from the original on August 7, 2010 ; Retrieved August 7, 2010 . 

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert C. Tucker in the catalog of the German National Library