Lev Eugene Dobriansky was an American diplomat and professor of economics at Georgetown University.
16 Facts About Lev Dobriansky
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Lev Dobriansky served as US Ambassador to the Bahamas, and was an anti-communist advocate.
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Lev Dobriansky is known for his work with the National Captive Nations Committee and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, and formerly served as the chairman emeritus of the latter.
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Lev Dobriansky's father, Ivan, was born in Kalush and his mother, Eugenia, emigrated in 1910.
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Lev Dobriansky received an undergraduate degree in 1941 and a master's degree in 1943 from New York University, where he was an instructor of economics throughout the 1940s.
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Lev Dobriansky's dissertation was a critique of the economist Thorstein Veblen.
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Lev Dobriansky taught economics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, from 1948 until his retirement in 1987.
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Lev Dobriansky was a faculty member at the National War College from 1957 to 1958, and served as a consultant for the United States Department of State, the International Communication Agency, and the United States House of Representatives.
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Lev Dobriansky briefly worked in an official capacity in Chile.
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On October 25,1982, Dobriansky was nominated by President Ronald Reagan as Ambassador to the Bahamas, succeed the previous ambassador, William B Schwartz.
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Lev Dobriansky was the chairman of National Captive Nations Committee.
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Lev Dobriansky founded and chaired for many years the related National Captive Nations Committee, which advocated for the nations memorialized in the resolution.
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In September, 1960, Lev Dobriansky testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee on the role of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev in crimes against the Ukrainian people perpetrated by his predecessor, Joseph Stalin, such as the Holodomor.
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Lev Dobriansky played a role in the construction of another Washington, DC, monument - a statue of Taras Shevchenko, the Ukrainian nationalist and artist.
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Lev Dobriansky was involved in the Ukrainian National Information Service, the American Council for World Freedom, the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, and the United States Council for World freedom.
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The foreign policy expert and former diplomat Paula Lev Dobriansky, his daughter, is a trustee of the foundation he helped establish, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.