Warren Lerner, 1929-2007

An obituary for Warren Lerner, a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies since its inception, who died on Dec 2, 2007 at the age of 78 in Durham NC, is presented. Lerner was born in Boston MA on Jul 16, 1929. Following his undergraduate education at Boston University, Warren received his MA at Columbia University's Russian Institute (now the Harriman Institute), and his doctorate in history at Columbia University where he studied under G. T. Robinson and Philip Mosley. His scholarly contributions include, above all, Karl Radek, the Last Internationalist (1970), which remains the definitive study of this leading Bolshevik, and his edited volume The Development of Soviet Foreign Policy: Studies in Honor of W. W. Kulski (1973), which contributed to the establishment of this field of study among historians of the Soviet Union.