Richard Pipes
Richard Pipes · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Historian of Russia and the Soviet Union; influential scholar of the Russian Revolution
1923, Cieszyn, Poland — 2018, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Poland · United States
Richard Pipes is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Historian of Russia and the Soviet Union; influential scholar of the Russian Revolution
Pipes was a Harvard historian of Russia and the Soviet Union and one of the most influential — and debated — Western scholars of the Russian Revolution, arguing that Bolshevik terror flowed from ideology rather than circumstance. He advised the Reagan administration on Soviet policy. Born to a Jewish family in Poland, he escaped the Nazi occupation in 1939 and later wrote about that experience and Jewish history.
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Historian of Russia and the Soviet Union; influential scholar of the Russian Revolution
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Political Philosophy & Science
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