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ISBN-13: | 9781412807173 |
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Publisher: | Transaction Publishers |
Publication date: | 11/15/2007 |
Pages: | 480 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
Age Range: | 16 Years |
About the Author
Ilya Zemtsov was born in the Baku region of Russia. He holds advanced graduate degrees in philosophy and sociology. Prior to his departure from Russia in 1973, he was a member of the executive board of the Soviet Sociological Association, and director of the department of social science at institutes of higher education in his -native Baku and in Yaroslav. After his emigration to Israel, he was a professor at the Hebrew University. Presently, he is the director of the International Research Center on Contemporary Society, and editor in chief of Crossroads, a quarterly journal issued in England. He has authored several books on Soviet society and polity, including a major study of Gorbachev published earlier this year by Transaction. Dr. Zemtsov is a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
John H. Farrar was head of the Department of Strategic Studies, IRCCS, until the summer of 1987. Since completing the book, he has joined the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. During his thirty year career in the U.S. Army, he held a variety of positions on the Department of Army staff, in the Defense Intelligence Agency, and at NATO headquarters.