UNDERSTANDING THE COLD WAR A Historian's Personal Reflections

by Adam B. Ulam

Historian Ulam (1922-2000) was considered the Russian expert at Harvard from 1947 to 1992, and here offers his memoir of his childhood in what is now Lviv, Ukraine during the 1920s and 1930s, trends in America and the world, and the events in eastern Europe and Russia during the 1980s and 1990s. He created Leopolis Press to publish the first edition in 2000. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

327 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2000

About the author

Adam Bruno Ulam was a Polish-American historian and political scientist at Harvard University. Ulam was one of the world's foremost authorities on Russia and the Soviet Union, and the author of twenty books and many articles.