Albert Parry (February 24, 1901 – May 4, 1992) was a

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n-born academic and historian. Albert Parry 1950

Overview

Parry, born Abraham Josipovich Paretsky in

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, Russia, was professor of Russian civilization and language at

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. After the

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he became a sailor in the Russian Merchant Marine and emigrated in 1921 to the United States, settling in

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. There he wrote for periodicals. At the

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, he earned an A.B. in 1935, and his Ph.D. in history in 1938,''Directory of American Scholars'', 6th ed. (Bowker, 1974), Vol. I, p. 482. taught there briefly and at

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. He was editor of Consolidated Book Publishers during his in Chicago years and a research director of radio broadcasts for the Chicago Sun. Parry founded Colgate University's Russian studies program, the first undergraduate program of its kind in America. In 1971, Parry retired from Colgate. He died in

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at age 91.

Selected publications

*Garrets and Pretenders: A History of Bohemianism in America (1933) *Tattoo: Secrets of a Strange Art as Practised among the Natives of the United States (1933) *Whistler's Father (1939) *The New Class Divided: Science and Technology versus Communism (1966) *The Russian Scientist (1973) *Terrorism: From Robespierre to Arafat (1976)

References

*Who's Who in America

External links

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