ABSTRACT
Adam B. Ulam, the Russian Research Center's director and professor of Government, has an office in room 105, at the middle of a long corridor on the first floor of 1737 Cambridge Street. There is a rumor around the Center that a couple of years ago, one of Ulam's research assistants found the documents and materials Ulam had used to write his first books, roughly 25 years before. At any rate, Ulam's den is heated like a greenhouse, with windows closed and the director sweating it out in rolled-up sleeves and undone collar. Ulam, a European, old-world scholar, was one of the Center's original members, finishing his Ph.D. dissertation on the British Labor Party in 1948, when the Center was founded with anthropologist and Freudian Clyde Kluckhohn as its first director. Most members of the Center are neither Harvard faculty members nor post-doctoral researchers or fund-raisers, however; many more/less permanent members are drawn from the Boston area social science faculties.
