LC control no. | n 80020413 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Bialer, Seweryn |
Located | Łódź (Poland) |
Birth date | 1926-11-03 |
Death date | 2019-02-08 |
Place of birth | Berlin (Germany) |
Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
Field of activity | Soviet Union--Politics and government |
Affiliation | Columbia University |
Profession or occupation | Defectors Political scientists College teachers |
Found in | His 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 language | eng |