Richard Pipes (1923–2018)
Author of The Russian Revolution
About the Author
Richard Pipes was born Ryszard Edgar Pipes in Cieszyn, Poland on July 11, 1923. Soon after German troops entered Warsaw, he and his family fled to Italy on forged passports in 1939. They reached the United States a year later. He was attending Muskingum College in Ohio when he was drafted into the show more Army Air Corps in 1942. He was sent to study Russian at Cornell University. He received a bachelor's degree from Cornell in 1946 and a doctorate in history from Harvard University in 1950. His dissertation became the basis of his first book The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism, 1917-1923. His other books included Struve: Liberal on the Left, 1870-1905; Struve: Liberal on the Right, 1905-1944; U.S.-Soviet Relations in the Era of Détente; Survival Is Not Enough: Soviet Realities and America's Future; Russia Under the Old Regime; The Russian Revolution; Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime; and Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger. He served for two years as the director of Eastern European and Soviet affairs for President Ronald Reagan's National Security Council. He spent his entire academic career at Harvard University. He died on May 17, 2018 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Richard Pipes in 1982
Works by Richard Pipes
Associated Works
Peter the Great Transforms Russia (Problems in European Civilization) (1972) — Contributor — 91 copies
Karamzin's Memoir on Ancient and Modern Russia : A Translation and Analysis (1959) — Editor — 34 copies
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- Canonical name
- Pipes, Richard
- Legal name
- Pipes, Richard Edgar
Pipes, Ryszard Edgar (birth) - Other names
- Pipes, Richard Edgar
- Birthdate
- 1923-07-11
- Date of death
- 2018-05-17
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA (naturalized) (1943)
Poland (birth) - Birthplace
- Cieszyn, Poland
- Place of death
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, Etats-Unis
- Places of residence
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, Etats-Unis
Cieszyn, Pologne (193|1940) - Education
- Muskingum College
Cornell University (BA|1946)
Harvard University (Ph.D|1950) - Occupations
- professor
historian - Relationships
- Roth, Irene Eugenia (wife)
Pipes, Daniel (son) - Organizations
- Harvard University
US Army Air Corps (WWII)
U.S. National Security Council (Director of East European and Soviet Affairs)
Committee on the Present Danger
Council on Foreign Relations
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (show all 7)
Valdai Discussion Club - Awards and honors
- National Humanities Medal (2007)
Honorary Consul of the Republic of Georgia
Polish Academy of Learning (Foreign Member)
Commander's Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
George Louis Beer Prize (show all 8)
Bene Merito (2010)
Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom
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Statistics
- Works
- 39
- Also by
- 4
- Members
- 2,509
- Popularity
- #10,231
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 22
- ISBNs
- 135
- Languages
- 15
- Favorited
- 6