Merle
Fainsod
Born in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, United States
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Erma Elizabeth (Stix) Fainsod
— married
about 1933 in Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Descendants 
Father of
[private daughter (1940s - unknown)] and [private daughter (1940s - unknown)]
Died
at age 64
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 3 Feb 2014
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Biography
Merle Fainsod (May 2, 1907 – February 11, 1972) was an American political scientist best known for his work on public administration and as a scholar of the Soviet Union. His books Smolensk under Soviet Rule, based on documents captured by the German Army during World War II, and How Russia is Ruled (also known as How the Soviet Union is Governed) helped form the basis of American study of the Soviet Union, and established him "as a leading political scientist of the Soviet Union." Fainsod is also remembered for his work in the Office of Price Administration and as the director of the Harvard University Library. - Wikipedia.
Sources
- Wikipedia contributors, "Merle Fainsod," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Merle_Fainsod&oldid=592474095 (accessed February 3, 2014).
- Merle Fainsod memorial, Find A Grave. Maintained by: Find A Grave Originally Created by: K Record added: Mar 16, 2004 Find A Grave Memorial# 8515075. (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8515075 Accessed 3 February 2014)
- "United States Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MF5T-LVS : accessed 03 Feb 2014), Merle Fainsod in household of Lewis Fainsod, McKees Rock Ward 2, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States; citing sheet , family 12, NARA microfilm publication T625, FHL microfilm 1821514.
- "United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K4VJ-6QF : accessed 03 Feb 2014), Merle Fainsod, Ward 6, Cambridge, Cambridge City, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 16-86, sheet 61A, family 170, NARA digital publication of T627, roll 1685.
- Research of Annie Jacobs, dated November 6, 1998.
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