Edward Carl Thaden

Edward Carl Thaden (April 24, 1922 - July 9, 2008) was an American historian, bestselling author and university professor.

Life

Thaden was born in Seattle, Washington on April 24, 1922. He was married to Marianna Forster Thaden. He died on July 9, 2008, in Seattle, Washington, after having succumbed to prostate cancer. Marianna Thaden died in 2011. The Edward and Marianna Thaden Chair in Russian and East European Intellectual History at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Liberal Arts and Sciences was established in 2012.

Education

He majored in Slavic Studies at the University of Washington where he received his bachelor’s degree.

Russia since 1801: the making of a new society Russia and the Balkan Alliance of 1912 Conservative nationalism in nineteenth-century Russia Russia's western borderlands, 1710-1870 Russification in the Baltic Provinces and Finland Interpreting History: Collective Essays on Russia's Relations with Europe