10 Facts About Moshe Lewin

Moshe "Misha" Lewin was a scholar of Russian and Soviet history.

Moshe Lewin was a major figure in the school of Soviet studies which emerged in the 1960s.

Moshe Lewin was born in 1921 in Wilno, Poland, the son of ethnic Jewish parents who were later murdered in the Holocaust.

Moshe Lewin's papers are housed at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Newly qualified with his doctorate, Moshe Lewin was named Director of Study at l'Ecole des hautes etudes, Paris, where he served from 1965 to 1966.

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Moshe Lewin's other 1968 publication, Lenin's Last Struggle, was an extended essay that charted the evolution of Lenin's thinking about the growing bureaucracy of Soviet Russia.

From 1967 to 1968, Moshe Lewin was a senior fellow at Columbia University in New York City.

Moshe Lewin noted that many of the same criticisms which Bukharin leveled against Stalin during the political battles of 1928 and 1929 in the USSR were later "adopted by current reformers as their own, " thereby adding a contemporary importance to the study of the historical past.

Moshe Lewin took up a professorship at the University of Pennsylvania, where he remained until his retirement in 1995.

The key thing is the perception of society as a socio-cultural whole, though Moshe Lewin always remained open to new pathways that might appear in the course of research, always eclectic in the best sense, always eschewing the pursuit of a grand theory for all history — a pursuit which only leads you away from the rich canvas of concrete human experience.