Process and Power in Soviet Foreign Policy
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1971. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, 939 p. 24 cm. Tables. Footnotes. From an obituary available on the Internet: "Vernon Aspaturian, Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Political Science a t Pennsylvania State University, and former Director of its Slavic and Soviet Language and Area Center; Sovietologist, author, lecturer, consultant to the Rand Corporation and the United States Government, died August 1st, 2007 at UCLA Medical Center. He was 85. Born in Armavir, Russia on February 16, 1922, Aspaturian came to the United States in 1923 with his parents, Serop and Gayna Aspaturian....He attended UCLA as a member of ASTP and graduated Officer's Candidate School as a 2nd Lieutenant. At the end of WWII, he returned to UCLA for his senior year-where he met the love of his life, Suzanne Dohan. He graduated summa cum laude in 1947 and he and Suzy were married in August 1948. Aspaturian received his PhD in Political Science in 1951, and was immediately recalled to active duty with the Army to serve in military intelligence in Tokyo during the Korean War. He returned to civilian life in 1952. That same year, he joined the faculty of the Political Science Department at Penn State University, in State College, Pennsylvania. During his 40 years at Penn State, Aspaturian taught thousands of students, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He also traveled widely, including several trips to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, China and Southeast Asia. His visiting professorships included a year at the Institut des Hautes Etudes in Geneva, Switzerland; several semesters at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University; visiting professorships at Columbia University, the U.S. Army War College, the Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA, and UCLA and UC Santa Barbara. He was author and co-author of several books on Soviet politics and foreign policy, and contributed articles and book chapters to numerous scholarly publications, in the areas of politics and international relations. After retiring in 1992, he returned to Southern California. Condition: Good. Paperclip mark. Pencil erasure residue on fep. DJ has some wear and soiling and is in a plastic sleeve. Minor pencil erasure on page vii.
Keywords: Arthur Schlesinger, Adam Ulam, Alexander Dallin, Marshall Shulman, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Warsaw Pact, Herbert Dinerstein, Thomas Wolfe
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