NOTES ON OUR AUTHORS

NOTES ON OUR AUTHORS Robert Conquest, a contributor to The New Leader since 1961, is a poet, novelist, literary critic, and historian. Born and educated in Great Britain, he spent a decade in...

...For the past 10 years he has been a Senior Research Fellow and Scholar-Curator of the Russian and East European Collection at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University...
...In 1971 he joined the faculty at Stanford...
...A prolific author, he was in the midst of writing his next book, entitled The End of the Communist Revolution, at the time of the August coup in Moscow...
...In 1964, following two years in Eastern Europe as aFellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs, he was appointed Central European correspondent of the Washington Post...
...His many works on Soviet affairs include The Great Terror and The Harvest of Sorrow...
...In 1989, Shleifer received the Presidential Young Investigator Award in Economics...
...Peter Kenez, who has been reporting for us on his travels in China, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union since 1973, is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz...
...Alexander Dalltn made his initial New Leader appearance in 1950 while still a graduate student at Columbia University, where he went on to become the Adali E. Stevenson Professor of International Relations and Director of the Russian Institute...
...Andrei Shleifer, a new contributor, is Professor of Economics at Harvard University and editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics...
...A specialist in international finance and the transformation of socialist economies, he was an adviser to the government of Lithuania last year and is a consultant to the World Bank...
...One of them, who appears to be Madison, began paying occasional visits to our pages in 1987...
...PuBLrus is, of course, the nom de guerre of the authors of the Federalist, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay...
...Robert V. Daniels, who began writing for the NL in 1959, is Professor of History emeritus at the University of Vermont...
...His interest in Soviet affairs was piqued, he says, when a course in Japanese that he wanted to take at Harvard was given at the wrong hour...
...It was a particular pleasure during his post-coup trip, he told us,to see his books being published in Russian...
...Born and educated in Great Britain, he spent a decade in the Diplomatic Service following World War II...
...They include Civil War in South Russia, 1919-1920 and The Birth of the Propaganda State...
...He left his native Hungary for the U. S. shortly after the Soviet troops arrived in November 1956, and continued his studies at Princeton and Harvard...
...The author of two books, The New Russian Tragedy and A n Empire Loses Hope, he also writes for such publications as the New York Times Book Review, Foreign Affairs and Problems of Communism...
...Dallin is the author of, among other books, German Rule in Russia, 1941-1945 and Black Box: KAL007 and the Superpowers...
...Shub was the Post's Moscow correspondent from April 1967 to May 1969, when the Soviet authorities expelled him...
...He has served there as Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, and is currently the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International Relations and Professor of Political Science...
...Anatole Shub was an editor of The New Leader from 1949 through 1958...

Vol. 74 • September 1991 • No. 10


 
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