Aleksandras Štromas

Alexander Shtromas
Alexander Shtromas
Born	April 4, 1931; Kaunas, Lithuania
Died	June 12, 1999 (aged 68); Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality	Lithuanian
Alma mater	Vilnius University; Moscow State University;
Known for	Human rights activism with participation in dissident movement in the Soviet Union
	Scientific career
Fields	Sociology
Institutions	Bradford University; Salford University; Hillsdale College;

Alexander Shtromas (Lithuanian: Aleksandras Štromas; 4 April 1931 in Kaunas, Lithuania – 12 June 1999 in Chicago) was a prominent Lithuanian political scientist, dissident, professor and author.

Biography

Shtromas was born in Kaunas, Lithuania. During the Nazi occupation of Lithuania he was imprisoned in the Ghetto. After he was saved from the Ghetto, Shtromas was harbored by Antanas Sniečkus. He studied at Vilnius University, and later finished at Moscow State University. In 1964 Shtromas defended his doctoral thesis in law. Soon afterward Shtromas became a critic of the Soviet regime and was forced to emigrate. In 1973 he settled in the United Kingdom. There he became professor of Bradford University, and later worked in Salford University, and, until his death, at Hillsdale College. Aleksandras Shtromas died on 12 June 1999 in the US.

Books in English

Who are the Soviet dissidents? (2 ed.). University of Bradford. 1979 [1977].
Political change and social development: the case of the Soviet Union (1981)
To fight communism: why and how? (1985)
The Soviet Union and the challenge of the future (edited with Morton A. Kaplan, 1988)
The end of "isms"?: reflections on the fate of ideological politics after Communism's collapse (edited, 1994)
Totalitarianism and the prospects for world order: closing the door on the twentieth century (2003)

Articles

Shtromas, Alexander (Summer–Autumn 1979). "Dissent and political change in the Soviet Union". Studies in Comparative Communism. 12 (2–3): 212–244. doi:10.1016/0039-3592(79)90010-3.
Shtromas, Alexander (Autumn–Winter 1987). "Dissent, nationalism, and the Soviet future". Studies in Comparative Communism. 20 (3–4): 277–285.

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References

Aleksandras Štromas. Retrieved on 2008-09-14

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