Professor Richard Pipes
Born in 1923 in Cieszyn, Poland, Richard Pipes left Poland in October 1939 and
arrived in the United States in July 1940. He graduated from Cornell University in 1945
while on active service with the U.S. Air Force. After earning a PhD in History from
Harvard University in 1950, he was Instructor and Lecturer in History and Literature at
Harvard until 1958 when he became the Baird Professor of History, also at Harvard, until
he retired in 1996. He also served as Director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard
from 1968-1973. He is now the Baird Professor of History, Emeritus, at Harvard. In 1976,
he was Chairman of the CIA's "Team B" to review Strategic Intelligence
Estimates; from 1981-82, he was Director of East European and Soviet Affairs in President
Ronald Reagan's National Security Council; and in 1992, he served as Expert Witness in the
Russian Constitutional Court's Trial of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Professor
Pipes' most important publications include: Formation of the Soviet Union, Russia
under the Old Regime, The Russian Revolution, Russia under the Bolshevik
Regime, Property and Freedom, and Communism: A History.
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