Peter Reddaway, The Dissidents: A Memoir of Working with the Resistance in Russia, 1960-1990. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2020. ISBN: 9780815737735. Hardcover, 338 pp., $29.99

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 1254-1256
Author(s):  
Dr. Samuel B. Hoff
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Russian History ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Brookings Institution ◽  
George Washington ◽  
Washington University ◽  
Fourth Book

The author, professor emeritus of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, has written his fourth book about recent Soviet Russian history.  However, unlike the previous three, he approaches this work from a personal perspective.  The objective of the current book is to relay his experience with the dissident movement in the aforementioned nation and to assess the reasons why reforms have been largely stymied.  Reddaway’s examination of the topic coincides with contemporary events both domestic and worldwide.

scholarly journals Foreword by the Outgoing Editor

1996 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 701-703
Author(s):  
David Shambaugh
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
George Washington ◽  
Forthcoming Special Issue ◽  
Washington University ◽  
George Washington University

The publication of this issue signifies the changing of the editorial guard at The China Quarterly. Although I will guest-edit the forthcoming special issue on Contemporary Taiwan (No. 148), it is time to hand over the editorial chair to my successor. This transition is occasioned by my move to the George Washington University to take up the positions of Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, and Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies.

Marcus Cunliffe Writes America

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-382
Author(s):  
MICK GIDLEY
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
The United States ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
George Washington ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Washington University

Marcus Cunliffe (1922–1990) was incontestably an important figure in American studies. In the early part of his academic career he helped to found the subject area in Britain, and he was later both awarded professorial appointments at the Universities of Manchester and Sussex and elected to the chairmanship of the British Association for American Studies, from which positions he served as a personal inspiration and professional mentor to several “generations” of UK American studies academics. Those who knew him and worked with him were invariably struck by his tall good looks, charisma and charm – characteristics that no doubt also contributed to his successful career, in Britain and in the United States, first as a visiting scholar, and later, during his final years, as the occupant of an endowed chair at George Washington University in Washington, DC. As the correspondence in his papers attest, he was held in high – and warm – regard by many of the leading US historians of his heyday. More might be said about his charm here because it also permeates his writing and persists there as a kind of afterglow, and not only for those who encountered him in person – but this essay is a critical reconsideration of his published work that, though appreciative, at least aspires towards objectivity.

scholarly journals Editorial Statement

2007 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. iii-iv
Author(s):  
Ron Rogowski
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
American Political Science Review ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
George Washington ◽  
Science Review ◽  
Editorial Statement ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Washington University ◽  
George Washington University

APSA is pleased to announce the next editorial team for American Political Science Review. The new team, to be located at UCLA, will begin their term on July 1, 2007. Their Editorial Statement follows. Lee Sigelman, the current APSR editor, and his team at George Washington University will conclude their term in August 2007. The transition from the Sigelman's GWU team to the UCLA team will be complete by the end of the calendar year, and the change will be reflected on the APSR masthead commencing with the first issue of Volume 102 in February of 2008.

scholarly journals Notes from the Editors

2010 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
pp. iii-viii
Keyword(s):  
Colon Cancer ◽  
Political Science ◽  
American Political Science Review ◽  
General Will ◽  
George Washington ◽  
Science Review ◽  
Cover Design ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Washington University ◽  
George Washington University

We first want to add our tribute to the chorus of encomia for Lee Sigelman, who died December 21 after a long battle with colon cancer. As members of the profession, we admire his scholarship, including six articles appearing in these pages between 1972 and 1999. As editors, we are in awe of his achievements as managing editor of the American Political Science Review from 2001 through 2007. Lee's editorship immediately preceded ours, and he could not have been more gracious or helpful in the transfer of editorial duties from George Washington University to UCLA. His advice both on manuscripts in process and on general points of policy was always swift and true. Although many more criticisms of us would have been justified, we can recall only one that he uttered, and which he hastened to say was predictable: He did not like the new cover design of the Review. We will very much miss his wise counsel. Both the Review and the discipline in general will be poorer for his passing.

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