Alexander Davidovich Dallin was an American historian, political scientist, and international relations scholar at Columbia University, where he was the Adlai Stevenson Professor of International Relations and the director of the Russian Institute.
20 Facts About Alexander Dallin
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Alexander Dallin was the son of Menshevik leader David Dallin, a Russian revolutionary who had gone into exile from Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1921, and David's first wife, the former Eugenia Bein.
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Alexander Dallin graduated from George Washington High School in New York City in 1941.
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Alexander Dallin became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1943.
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Alexander Dallin enrolled at City College of New York, but then interrupted his studies in 1943 to enlist in the United States Army.
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Alexander Dallin married the former Florence Cherry, the daughter of a Methodist minister, in 1953.
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In 1956, Alexander Dallin became an assistant professor of political science at Columbia University.
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Alexander Dallin subsequently became professor of international relations in 1961 and received the Adlai Stevenson chair in 1965.
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Alexander Dallin was director of Columbia's Russian Institute from 1962 to 1967.
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Alexander Dallin made several appearances as a presenter on the nationally broadcast television series Columbia Lectures in International Studies.
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Alexander Dallin served as a part-time consultant to the US Government during much of the 1960s.
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Alexander Dallin was frequently present in open-to-the-public Center for Russian and East European Studies seminars on campus where his expertise and talent were shared.
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The Faculty Senate at Stanford reported that Alexander Dallin "chaired virtually every major committee in the field".
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Alexander Dallin was a long-time member of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and he helped re-energize the organization by bringing its headquarters to Stanford and served as its president from 1984 to 1985.
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Alexander Dallin had earlier been president of the Western Slavic Association from 1978 to 1980.
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Interested in reviving the social sciences in post-Soviet Russia, in 1994, Alexander Dallin helped found the European University at Saint Petersburg.
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Alexander Dallin founded, with Condoleezza Rice, the New Democracy Fellows Program at Stanford.
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David Holloway and Norman Naimark edited a Festschrift in honor of Dallin, Reexamining the Soviet Experience: Essays in Honor of Alexander Dallin, published in 1996.
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Alexander Dallin formally retired in 1996 but continued to write, teach, and participate in academic activities.
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Alexander Dallin died of heart failure in Stanford, California, on 22 July 2000, having suffered a stroke the day before.