Pipes, Richard

LC control no.	n 80005118
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Pipes, Richard *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Пайпс, Ричард Paĭps, Richard Pipes, Ryszard Edgar
Associated country	United States
Located	Kraków (Poland) Warsaw (Poland) Elmira (N.Y.)
Birth date	1923-07-11
Death date	2018-05-17
Place of birth	Cieszyn (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
Place of death	Cambridge (Mass.)
Field of activity	Russia--History Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921 United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States
Affiliation	National Security Council (U.S.) United States. Central Intelligence Agency Harvard University
Profession or occupation	Historians Sovietologists College teachers
Special note	Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found in	The formation of the Soviet Union, 1954. Property & freedom, 1999: CIP t.p. (Richard Pipes) data sheet (b. 07-11-23) Russkiĭ conservatizm i ego kritiki, 2008: t.p. (Richard Paĭps) BL database, 11 Jan. 2010 (hdg.: Pipes, Richard Edgar) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1923) New York times WWW site, viewed May 18, 2018 (in obituary published May 17: Richard Pipes; b. Ryszard Edgar Pipes, July 11, 1923, Cieszyn, Poland; later moved with his family to Cracow and Warsaw; in 1939, soon after German troops entered Warsaw, the Pipeses fled to Italy on forged passports; they reached the U.S. a year later, settling in Elmira, N.Y.; d. Thursday [May 17, 2018], Cambridge, Mass., aged 94; author of a monumental, sharply polemical series of historical works on Russia, the Russian Revolution, and the Bolshevik regime; top adviser to the Reagan administration on Soviet and Eastern European policy; spent his entire academic career at Harvard) Harvard University, Department of History WWW site, viewed May 18, 2018 (in obituary dated May 17: Richard Pipes; b. July 11, 1923, Poland; d. this morning, May 17, in the Boston area; Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History, Emeritus; arrived in the United States as a refugee from the Nazis in 1940; entered Harvard as a graduate student in 1946, staying at the university until his retirement in 1996; his speciality was imperial Russian history and the Russian Revolution; was also active in policy toward the Soviet Union, heading the CIA's Team B in 1976 and serving for two years (1981-1983) on the White House National Security Council)
Associated language	eng