Professor of Russian and European Intellecutal History, University of California, Berkeley, 1957-1997: Oral History Transcript / 1998 (Classic Reprint)

Cataloguing information RIASANOVSKY, Nicholas V. (b. 1923) Professor of history Professor of Russian andE uropean Intellectual History, University of California, Berkeley, 1957-1997, 1998, x, 310 pp. Recollections of family and education in Russian emigre communities of Harbin and Tientsin, China; emigration to United States, 1938, and education at University ofO regon, Harvard, andO xford, as Rhodes Scholar; WWII service; teaching at University of Iowa history department, 1949-1957; marriage, family, Russian Orthodox Church, interest in sports; professor of history, UC Berkeley since 1957: discussion of departmental governance, hiring and promotion of faculty, reaction to campus unrest in 1960s and 1970s; service as chairman of theD epartment of History (1967-1969) and chairman of Graduate Council (1970-1973); teaching and research and writing in Russian history and culture; visits to theS oviet Union andR ussia. Introduction by Reginald E. Zelnik, Professor of History, UC Berkeley. Interviewed 1996 by A nn Lage for theD epartment of History at Berkeley Series.
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