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German. Occupation (s) Historian, lecturer, writer. Political party. SED. (later a party dissident) Spouse. Elke Leonhard-Schmid (1974) Wolfgang Leonhard (16 April 1921 – 17 August 2014) was a German political author and historian of the Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic and Communism.
In the 1980s, one of the largest Yale College courses was History of the Soviet Union—but nearly everyone called the course simply “Wolfgang.” That was a testament to the campus-celebrity status of its professor, Wolfgang Leonhard, who influenced two decades’ worth of Yale students with a narrative of Soviet history drawn both from his ...
Wolfgang Leonhard (* 16. April 1921 in Wien als Wladimir Leonhard (seit 1945 trug er den Vornamen Wolfgang ); † 17. August 2014 in Daun [1]) war ein deutscher Historiker und Publizist.
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Aug 18, 2014 · Photo: Thomas Uhlemann/German Federal Archive — Enlarge image. Wolfgang Leonhard, whose lectures on the history of the Soviet Union packed the Yale Law School auditorium and inspired students from future president George W. Bush ’68 to future spy writer Joseph Weisberg ’87, has died at age 93. Born in Vienna in 1921 and raised in Berlin ...
Aug 17, 2014 · The historian Wolfgang Leonhard, who broke with the founders of the former East Germany to become a Soviet critic and professor at Yale University, has died. The 93-year-old leaves behind a...
April 16, 1921. Died. August 17, 2014. Genre. History, Memoir, Sovietology. edit data. German political author, publicist, and historian. A former communist who fled to the Soviet Union in 1935, he became part of the "National Committee for the liberation of Germany".
Nov 4, 2015 · Wolfgang Leonhard describes how he left Germany after the Nazis came into power, how he went to the Sowjetunion and experienced Stalin's dramatic clean-up operations (his mother, his teachers, and friends got arrested), how he became a student of the Komintern school, and part of the communist elite, and how he was sent back to Germany after ...
