Bruno stalin biography

Ulam's excellent biography puts into perspective how a seemingly under-educated person such as Stalin could fill the void left by a giant of a person like Lenin.

  • Ulam's excellent biography puts into perspective how a seemingly under-educated person such as Stalin could fill the void left by a giant of a person like Lenin.
  • In this biography of Joseph Stalin, Adam Ulam explores the secret of his power, the hold his memory still has over the imagination.
  • A detailed portrait of the complex Russian leader that probes his psychological motivations and legacy.
  • This definitive history of Stalin's life, a digital edition being available for free online, leaves out no details in the rise of the dictator from Georgia.
  • Though written almost forty years ago, Adam Ulam's history of Stalin remains an accurate classic of Soviet Russia spanning the period from the Pre-Revolutionary.
  • A detailed portrait of the complex Russian leader that probes his psychological motivations and legacy....

    Adam Ulam

    American historian (1922–2000)

    Adam Bruno Ulam

    Adam Ulam

    Born(1922-04-08)April 8, 1922
    Lwów, Poland
    (now Lviv, Ukraine)
    DiedMarch 28, 2000(2000-03-28) (aged 77)
    Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
    Resting placeMount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
    OccupationPolitical scientist, historian, Sovietologist, Kremlinologist, author
    LanguageEnglish, Polish, Russian
    NationalityPolish
    CitizenshipPolish (before 1939), American (from 1939)
    Alma materBrown University, Harvard University
    GenreNon-fiction, political history, political philosophy
    SubjectPolitical Science, History, Sovietology, Kremlinology, Education
    Notable worksExpansion and Coexistence: The History of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-67 (1968); Idealism and the Development of English Socialism (Ph.D.

    thesis, 1947)

    Notable awardsDelancey K. Jay Prize of Harvard University (1947)
    SpouseMary Hamilton (Molly) Burgwin Ulam (m