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...scholars. Even after years of training, a Soviet specialist's job opportunities wax and wane with the climate of detente. The CIA today reports a shortage of Soviet experts, yet it let many go in the '70s. At Harvard's Russian Research Center, Director Adam Ulam is concerned about "the general dearth of specialists" as many of his senior faculty members approach retirement. The center operates on the same $175,000 annual budget that it had in the mid-1960s, which makes it increasingly difficult to fund major research projects. Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute...
...party committee membership. On his way up the bureaucratic ladder, he earned a degree in engineering. Somehow he escaped the great purges of 1937-38 that sent tens of thousands of party officials to their deaths. Whether he actively took part in those purges is unclear. Harvard Sovietologist Adam Ulam concludes that Brezhnev was "clever as well as lucky; at a time when people in the party hierarchy were being liquidated right and left, he not only survived but prospered...
Most experts agree that Andropov does not yet possess and may never achieve the power necessary to effect profound changes in the Soviet Union. It took several years before Khrushchev and Brezhnev were able to assert themselves as the Soviet Union's unchallenged leaders. Says Harvard's Adam Ulam: "The process of succession does not begin with the death of a leader, nor does it end with the designation of his successor...
...special $5 million fund drive for the center is scheduled to begin this school year under the auspices of Harvard's $350 million capital funds campaign. "The drive is necessary in order to bring us back to our original strength of 20 years ago," said Adam Ulam, the center's director...
...standoff. Some attribute the successful drive for the 1963 partial Test Ban Treaty to the concern aroused in October 1962. But the Caribbean confrontation did not itself produce significant new critiques of American government and foreign policy among students and professors. "Students were very little activated politically," says Adam Ulam. "The mood of Vietnam had not yet emerged, and there was nothing like the interest in political issues that came to exist...