biography
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Yakobson, Sergius O
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| male
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| lived:
| (1901–79)
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| biography:
| Foreign affairs specialist and writer, born in Moscow, Russia. Emigrating to the USA to escape the onslaught of World War 2, he was a Russian affairs specialist for the Library of Congress (1941), and then director of the Slavic and Central Europe division when it was established (1951). A frequent contributor to journals, he wrote Conflict and Change in Soviet Historical Scholarship. |
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