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Richard Pipes (1923-2018) was the most perceptive and productive historian of Russia and the Soviet Union of his generation. The author of twenty-five books and literally hundreds of articles and book reviews, he also served in 1981-1982 in the Reagan Administration as Director of East European and Soviet Affairs.
Pipes’ foundational insight—that Russian rulers, unlike Western kings and dictators, considered themselves proprietors as well as sovereigns, so that Russia was their God-given patrimony—explains better than any other the persistence and uniqueness of Russian national history and culture.
The one book he wrote that did not concern Russian history, Property and Freedom (1999), on the centrality of property rights in Western Civilization, explains convincingly why these rights were an essential prerequisite of classical liberalism and representative government.
In addition, Pipes’ magnum opus, a three-volume study of the Russian Revolution of 191