Word: kohn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history student knows that in 1915 the Russians tried to cross the Carpathian Mountains into the plain of Hungary and that they were unsuccessful. Very few know that among the defenders was an Austrian infantry officer, Hans Kohn, who three decades later would be teaching government at the Harvard University Summer School. Though the Russians were turned back, he and his company were captured and were sent as prisoners of war to a summer Cossack camp in Turkestan...
...next four years Kohn was shipped up and down the whole continent of Asia, where he got a taste of Russian prison camps from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. His Russian captors gave him surprising liberties, which included catching malaria and typhoid fever with only the help of a broken down Czech dentist to pull him through. For two years after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was imprisoned in the Siberian cities of Novosibersk and two other unpronounceable locations. Kohn, who just before the war had completed law school in Prague, acquired his first teaching experience in these cities...
...Kohn's travels sent him zigzagging across Europe as he had covered the map of Asia. Leaving Vladivostok in 1920, he returned for a few months to his home in Prague, a free man for the first time in five years. Then he went to Paris and finally London, where for four years he had access to the historical wealth of the British Museum. In 1925 he traveled to Palestine, where he continued first hand his study of the history and politics of the Near and Middle East. From Palestine he came in 1931 to the United States and since...
Perhaps more famous as a writer than a teacher, Professor Kohn has just completed "World Order in Historical Perspective," and with the help of a Guggenheim fellowship is in the process of writing a monumental four-volume "History of Nationalism." He teaches Government 18 (The Struggle for World Empire) and gives weekly lectures in current events at the Harvard Summer School...
Pointing out that the defeat of France had its values also, Professor Kohn stated that this event was in great part responsible for arousing the American and British people and galvanizing them into action against the Germans...