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Bialer, Seweryn

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Personal name headingBialer, Seweryn
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LocatedŁódź (Poland)
Birth date1926-11-03
Death date2019-02-08
Place of birthBerlin (Germany)
Place of deathManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activitySoviet Union--Politics and government
AffiliationColumbia University
Profession or occupationDefectors
Political scientists College teachers
Found inHis Stalin and his generals, 1969.
New York times WWW site, viewed Feb. 22, 2019 (in obituary published Feb. 21: Seweryn Bialer; b. Nov. 3, 1926, Berlin; raised in Lodz, Poland; d. Feb. 8, Manhattan, aged 92; endured persecution by the Nazis in Poland and served in its postwar Communist government before defecting to the West in Jan. 1956 and becoming a leading expert on the Soviet Union; after several years as a research analyst for United States government agencies, joined the Columbia faculty in 1964 and began work on his Ph .D. there, earning it in political science in 1966 with a dissertation on the Soviet political elite; taught at Columbia for 33 years)
Associated languageeng