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The SovietEmpireReconsidered:Essavsin Honor of Adam B. Ulam. Edited by Sanford R. Lieberman, David E. Powell, Carol R. Saivetz, and Sarah M. Terry. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. xiv, 264 pp. $59.95.

The SovietEmpireReconsidered:Essavsin Honor of Adam B. Ulam. Edited by Sanford R. Lieberman,... The Soviet Empire Reconsidered: Essavs in Honor of Adam B. Ulam. Edited by Sanford R. Lieberman, David E. Powell, Carol R. Saivetz, and Sarah M. Terry. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. xiv, 264 pp. $59.95. This book, a Festschrift for one of the most prominent and prolific scholars of twentieth- century Russian and Soviet history, begins, appropriately, with a brief tribute to Adam Ulam himself, a postwar Polish emigre who joined Harvard's Government Department at the onset of the Cold War in 1947. In the context of the global rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States Ulam's writings shaped two generations of scholars; and his work helped to define the central preoccupations of the field. Exploring a wide range of topics, his books included biographies of Lenin and Stalin, analyses of Soviet fcreign policy and Soviet Marxism, and an examination of the legacies of Russia's revolutionary experience. The articles in the Festschrift also cover a broad spectrum of topics. They begin with a discussion about totalitarianism and Soviet military occupations and move on to consider such things as the origins and significance of "imperative planning, the environmental setting in Moscow, the importance of ideology in foreign http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

The SovietEmpireReconsidered:Essavsin Honor of Adam B. Ulam. Edited by Sanford R. Lieberman, David E. Powell, Carol R. Saivetz, and Sarah M. Terry. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. xiv, 264 pp. $59.95.

Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 30 (2-4): 323 – Jan 1, 1996

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Brill
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© 1996 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0090-8290
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2210-2396
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10.1163/221023996X00547
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The Soviet Empire Reconsidered: Essavs in Honor of Adam B. Ulam. Edited by Sanford R. Lieberman, David E. Powell, Carol R. Saivetz, and Sarah M. Terry. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. xiv, 264 pp. $59.95. This book, a Festschrift for one of the most prominent and prolific scholars of twentieth- century Russian and Soviet history, begins, appropriately, with a brief tribute to Adam Ulam himself, a postwar Polish emigre who joined Harvard's Government Department at the onset of the Cold War in 1947. In the context of the global rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States Ulam's writings shaped two generations of scholars; and his work helped to define the central preoccupations of the field. Exploring a wide range of topics, his books included biographies of Lenin and Stalin, analyses of Soviet fcreign policy and Soviet Marxism, and an examination of the legacies of Russia's revolutionary experience. The articles in the Festschrift also cover a broad spectrum of topics. They begin with a discussion about totalitarianism and Soviet military occupations and move on to consider such things as the origins and significance of "imperative planning, the environmental setting in Moscow, the importance of ideology in foreign

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