Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger - Hardcover

Pipes, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300101651 ISBN 13: 9780300101652

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Sixteen-year-old Richard Pipes escaped from Nazi-occupied Warsaw with his family in October 1939. Their flight took them to the United States by way of Italy, and Pipes went on to earn a college degree, join the U.S. Air Corps, serve as professor of Russian history at Harvard for nearly forty years, and become adviser to President Reagan on Soviet and Eastern European affairs. In this engrossing book, the eminent historian remembers the events of his own remarkable life as well as the unfolding of some of the twentieth century's most extraordinary political events. From his youthful memories of bombs falling on Warsaw to his recollections of the conflicts inside the Reagan administration over American policies toward the USSR, Pipes offers penetrating observations as well as fascinating portraits of such cultural and political figures as Isaiah Berlin, Ronald Reagan, and Alexander Haig. Perhaps most interesting of all, Pipes depicts his evolution as a historian and his understanding of how history is witnessed and how it is recorded.

About this title

From the Back Cover

"Mr. Pipes has had a long and distinguished life and career, and he has made distinctive and important contributions to both scholarship and public policy. He has much of interest to tell, particularly concerning his often contentious involvement with American policy toward the Soviet Union."-Mark Raeff, Columbia University

About the Author

Richard Pipes is Baird Professor of History, Emeritus, at Harvard University and an internationally renowned historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. He is the author of twenty books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0300101651
• ISBN 13: 9780300101652
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 290