ABSTRACT
Adam Ulam was one of the world's foremost authorities on Russia and the Soviet Union. He was a member of the Harvard faculty from 1947 until his retirement in 1992. Over the years, he trained thousands of undergraduate and graduate students who went on to leading posts in academia, government, business, and media. He was affiliated with Harvard's Russian Research Center for more than fifty years. He twice served as the Center's director, from 1973 to 1976 and from 1980 to 1992. During his tenure, the Center became one of the leading institutions in the world for the study of the Soviet Union. Ulam wrote eighteen books, many of which remain classics in the field. He started out in 1951 by publishing a book on The Philosophical Foundations of English Socialism and followed it up a year later with Titoism and the Cominform. After that, Ulam began writing about Russia and the Soviet Union, for the rest of his life.
