Paul Hollander Biography

Dr Paul Hollander

Born in Budapest in 1932.

Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst;
Associate, Davis Center of Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Dr. Hollander is a prominent scholar, political writer and a leading expert on Communism and anti-Americanism.

Dr. Paul Hollander experienced 20th century totalitarianism first hand. In 1944 when Nazi troops occupied Hungary he and his family survived the Jewish persecution by hiding with false papers. He welcomed the Soviet troops liberating Hungary and sympathized with the communist regime in his early teens. Disillusionment followed before completing high school. He and his family were deported in 1951 to rural areas as politically unreliable elements. He was drafted in the military in 1953 and served at first in labor units set up for the politically unreliable, later in the infantry. In 1955 and early 56 he worked as a laborer on construction. He escaped after the Soviet army crushed the Revolution of 1956.

Education
Madach Gimnazium (high school) Budapest; completed 1951
London School of Economics (University of London): B.A., 1959
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana: M.A., 1960
Princeton University Ph.D.: 1963 [all degrees in sociology]

Teaching Positions
Harvard University: Assistant Prof., Dept of Social Relations, 1963-1968;
University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Associate Prof., Full Prof.: 1968 - 2000 [retired 2000]

Research Positions
Russian Research Center, Davis Center: Research Fellow 1963-68, Associate Since 1968
Guggenheim Fellow: 1974-75;
Rockefeller Study Center, Bellagio, Italy: Scholar in Residence 1984;
Hoover Institution: Visiting Scholar: Summer 1985, 1986; Winter-Spring 1993

Books
Ed. American and Soviet Society: A Reader in Comparative Sociology and Perception 1969 (Prentice Hall)
Soviet and American Society: A Comparison 1973, 1978 (Oxford University Press, Chicago University Press) Translated into Japanese.
Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China and Cuba 1981, 1983, 1990, 1998 (Oxford UP, Harper @ Row, University Press of America, Transaction Publishers) Translated into Hungarian Italian and Russian.
The Many Faces of Socialism 1983, 1990 (Transaction)
The Survival of the Adversary Culture 1988 (Transaction);
Decline and Discontent: Communism and the West Today 1992 (Transaction);
Anti-Americanism 1992, 1995 (Oxford UP, Transaction; translated into Russian, 2006);
Political Will and Personal Belief: The Decline and Fall of Soviet Communism 1999 (Yale UP);
Discontents: Postmodern and Post Communist 2002 (Transaction);
ed. Understanding Anti-Americanism 2004 (Ivan R. Dee)
 
ed. From the Gulag to the Killings Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States 2006 (ISI Books);
The End of Commitment: Intellectuals, Revolutionaries and Political Morality (Ivan R. Dee) 2006.

Work in Progress
Editor: Political Violence: Belief, Behavior and Legitimation (Essays in Honor of Robert Conquest), forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan publisher

Strength or Weakness? Sources of Anti-Americanism, Past and Present (essays, forthcoming to be published by Lexington Books)