ABSTRACT
Before Adam Ulam taught a course of his own as an instructor in Government, he went through an apprenticeship conducting a section of an introductory survey. The undergraduate newspaper, The Crimson, published every fall the "Confidential Guide", evaluating the previous year's courses and their teachers. After teaching his British Empire course for three years, Adam felt that it was time for a change. Adam's secession from the Commonwealth was facilitated by the establishment at Harvard in 1948 of the Russian Research Center. His new teaching duties centered on lectures and a seminar on Soviet foreign policy, though occasionally he would teach the course on Russian domestic politics usually given by Fainsod. Unlike Adam's course on the liquidation of the British Empire, the topics of Soviet foreign policy and socialism both drew a respectable clientele.
