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Billington, James H(adley)
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| Historian, born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. Deeply attracted to Russian culture and intellectual life, he earned his PhD on a Rhodes scholarship (1953) and served in the US army (1953–6) before teaching at Harvard and Princeton. He published three significant books on Russia, including Icon and Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture (1966). He was director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1973–87) and then became the 14th Librarian of Congress in 1987. |
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