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Abbott Gleason (1938–2015)

Author of Totalitarianism: The Inner History of the Cold War

9 Works 154 Members 1 Review

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Includes the names: Abbot Gleason, Abbott Gleason

Works by Abbott Gleason

Totalitarianism: The Inner History of the Cold War (1995) 43 copies

On "Nineteen Eighty-Four": Orwell and Our Future (1983) — Editor — 38 copies

Young Russia : the genesis of Russian radicalism in the 1860s (1980) 31 copies

A Companion to Russian History (2009) — Editor — 21 copies

Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution (1985) — Editor — 13 copies

European and Muscovite: Ivan Kireevsky and the Origins of Slavophilism (1972) 5 copies

A Liberal Education (2010) 1 copy

On nineteen eighty-four Orwell and our future — Editor — 1 copy

1980 FIRST EDITION RUSSIA ANARCHISTS REVOLUTIONARIES YOUNG RUSSIA WITH DJ 1 copy

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Birthdate: 1938-07-21
Date of death: 2015-12-25
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Place of death: East Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Education: University of Heidelberg
Harvard University (BA, PhD)
Brown University (MA)
Occupations: professor
Organizations: Brown University (Watson Institute for International Studies)
American Historical Association
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
National Council for Soviet and East European Research

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On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and Our Future

Please see my review in the Oxonian Review of Books:

http://www.oxonianreview.org/issues/5-1/5-1oleary.html

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Works: 9
Members: 154
Popularity: #135,795
Rating: ½ 3.6

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 23

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