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The Donald W. Treadgold Memorial Lecture<\/h2>\n
\"Donald<\/p>\n

Donald Treadgold<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies hosts the Donald W. Treadgold Memorial Lecture. The Center invites leading scholars and prominent figures from the REECAS region to speak on topics of historical or contemporary relevance<\/p>\n

The Treadgold Papers<\/h2>\n

S<\/em>ince 1994, the Ellison Center has published the Treadgold Papers, a series of occasional short monographs on topics related to the REECA region. \u00a0Between 2005 and 2011 the<\/em>\u00a0University of Washington Press published five issues of the Treadgold Papers.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Treadgold Papers ceased publication in 2011 and no new submissions are being accepted for publication. The Ellison Center will no longer receive or return unsolicited manuscripts<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

All archived\u00a0Treadgold Papers can be accessed through our Digital Library<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Donald Treadgold<\/h2>\n

Donal W. Treadgold was\u00a0born in Silverton, Oregon. He earned his B.A.\u00a0degree in 1943 at the University of Oregon. His studies were interrupted by military\u00a0service between 1943 and 1946 in Europe where he rose to rank of captain in the\u00a0military intelligence. In 1947 he earned his Master’s degree at Harvard and his Doctor\u00a0of Philosophy three years later at Oxford. In 1949 he joined the University of Washington from which he retired at the end of June 1993.<\/p>\n

To most colleagues Professor Treadgold is best known as a superb scholar. His\u00a0first book, Lenin and His Rivals (Praeger) was published in 1955 (reprinted by Greenwood,\u00a01976). Two years later Princeton University Press brought out The Great Siberian\u00a0Migration (also reprinted by Greenwood, 1976). His widely known and used Twentieth\u00a0Century Russia was first published in 1959 by Rand-McNally. The eighth, totally reworked\u00a0and rewritten edition of this work was published posthumously by Westview\u00a0Press. Next came the two-volume The West in Russia and China (Cambridge University\u00a0Press, 1973-reprinted in 1985 by Westview) in preparation for which Professor Treadgold\u00a0learned Chinese. I recall walking into his office while he worked on his Chinese.\u00a0He called me over and showed me some, to me meaningless, signs and said, “It took\u00a0me hours to figure out that these stand for Aristotle.” He certainly did not use easy\u00a0or standard texts to learn a language!<\/p>\n

His publications continued with A History of Christianity (Nordland, 1979) the revision\u00a0of which was left unfinished by its author’s untimely death. Freedom: A History(New York University, 1990) was the last volume Professor Treadgold wrote, but certainly\u00a0not his last publication. He constantly worked on revisions of older works, on\u00a0his literally hundreds of articles, lectures and book reviews and on editing The Development\u00a0of the USSR (1964) and Soviet and Chinese Communism (1967) both by the University\u00a0of Washington Press. He co-edited (with Larry Lerner) Gorbachev and the Soviet\u00a0Future (Westview, 1988) and with me seven of the planned ten volumes of A History of\u00a0East-Central Europe. His last editorial enterprise, Render unto Caesar: Religion and World\u00a0Politics (co-edited with Sabrina Ramet) will be published in 1995 by the American\u00a0University Press.<\/p>\n

Besides writing his own volumes and editing several others, Professor Treadgold\u00a0found time to write chapters, introductions and essays for several other volumes. I am\u00a0certain that I did not discover all when I counted 27 of these.\u00a0Donald Treadgold, the editor, is well known to all readers of the Slavic Review.\u00a0The first issue of the AAASS’s journal published under this title (October 1961) was\u00a0the third issue which listed him as the Managing Editor. Numbers 1 and 2 of Volume\u00a0xx still appeared as The American Slavic and East European Review and included a new\u00a0feature, the Discussion Section. It is generally recognized that under his management,\u00a01961-1964, Slavic Review became a first-rate scholarly journal. Nothing proves this\u00a0better than the fact that when the publication ran into some difficulties again, it was\u00a0Professor Treadgold who was asked to resume the job of Managing Editor for a second\u00a0time, 1968-1975, although he had to add this burden to the already time-consuming\u00a0position of Chairman of the History Department. This was typical of Donald Treadgold\u00a0who never refused to step in when help was needed by an organization or a\u00a0friend.\u00a0His editorial success was the result of another Treadgold characteristic, thoroughness.\u00a0Because he did me the honor and asked me repeatedly to work with him\u00a0on the Slavic Review, Iwas able to observe him at work. I think he is the only editor I\u00a0ever knew who would not approve anything for publication until he checked out every\u00a0footnote to make certain that they were absolutely correct! That this took much time,\u00a0did not matter to him; he had to do what he considered to be the proper and required\u00a0job.<\/p>\n

To do things properly and correctly was part of Donald Treadgold’s characteristics\u00a0and values. Added to this was a certain noblesse oblige which made him accept assignments\u00a0from the Department of History and what was known under various names\u00a0during his years of service and is today the Jackson School of the University of Washington\u00a0as well as the American Historical Association, AAASS, and numerous other\u00a0national and international scholarly organizations all of whom he served in numerous\u00a0capacities with distinction. The list is too long to include the numerous services to all\u00a0of these. I will mention only a few: Chairman of the History Department for ten years,\u00a0Acting Chairman of what is now the Jackson School on more than one occasion;\u00a0President of AAASS (1977); Program Committee Chairman for the III World Congress\u00a0of International Committee on Soviet and East European Studies; Chairman of the\u00a0Academic Advisory Committee of the Kennan Institute; Chairman of the Joint Committee\u00a0on Slavic Studies of ACLS and many others.\u00a0That the abilities of a scholar of Professor Treadgold’s stature were recognized is\u00a0no surprise. Once again, I will limit myself to listing only some of the major awards\u00a0and honors he received during his distinguished career. These include a Rhodes Scholarship;\u00a0a Ford Foundation Fellowship; a Rockefeller Foundation Grant; a Guggenheim\u00a0Fellowship; the E. Harrison Harbison Award for Distinguished Teaching; the Phi Beta\u00a0Kappa Scholar nomination; the AAASS Award for Distinguished Service and another\u00a0for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies; the University of Washington Annual\u00a0Faculty Lectureship; Scholar in Residence, Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio and finally\u00a0an election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.\u00a0The above mentioned Harbison Award indicates that Professor Treadgold was an\u00a0exceptional teacher of both graduates and undergraduates while upholding the highest\u00a0academic standards and values.<\/p>\n

His interest in his students went way beyond the\u00a0classroom. Every day when the university was in session, he appeared at 9:30 in the\u00a0cafeteria of the Student Union where any student could join him and discuss academic,\u00a0national, world and private problems with him. The number of foreign students who\u00a0found out what Thanksgiving is by joining the Treadgolds is large. His students became\u00a0attached to him for life. At every AAASS meeting members of The Gang, as these ex-students\u00a0call themselves, had a reunion dinner with their master and friend. Not only\u00a0the students of the University of Washington profited from Professor Treadgold’s\u00a0ability to share his knowledge. He gave lectures at some fifty other institutions and\u00a0served as visiting professor\/scholar at the National University at Taipei, the University\u00a0of Hawaii, the Academy of Sciences in Moscow and Toyo Bunko in Tokyo.\u00a0Students were not the only ones who profited from Professor Treadgold’s interest\u00a0in their well being and from his friendship. So did numerous colleagues, including\u00a0myself. As I wrote elsewhere: “Don was a man who fostered not only his own but many\u00a0other careers with his encouragement and suggestions. He had his own vision of things,\u00a0but he was able and willing to listen to those of others…” He not only listened but\u00a0helped when he could. In a letter which I received from a respected colleague after\u00a0Professor Treadgold’s death I read: “…when I wrote something for publication I\u00a0usually had Don in mind as my main reader. I wanted what I wrote to be something that he would approve.. .” The number of colleagues who thought this way and were\u00a0helped by both criticism and approval they received from Donald Treadgold is numerous\u00a0indeed.<\/p>\n

We lost a great scholar and teacher, but those of us-and this includes a great\u00a0number of friends all over the world-lost an exemplary human being. I already wrote\u00a0about his helpfulness, his belief that things must always be done as well as one’s ability\u00a0permits, but if I have to list his main characteristics, I must begin with loyalty. This\u00a0belonged, first, foremost and always to his family for whom he always had time even\u00a0in the midst of the most hectic circumstances. His love for them was boundless and unconditional. He was more proud of them than of anything else in life. Next came
\nhis friends. Even if they disappointed him on occasion, they remained his friends and
\ntheir weaknesses were overlooked.<\/p>\n

Next to loyalty, I would list self-discipline as the next prominent feature we learned\u00a0to observe and respect. All of us make plans, give ourselves deadlines, map out our\u00a0next steps, but only seldom do things and events turn out as we planned. Donald\u00a0Treadgold was the exception. His plans and time tables worked because he had himself\u00a0fully in control. Most of us with teaching experience know that it takes time to get\u00a0“out of the class room” mentally and begin working on an article or book. Professor\u00a0Treadgold could switch from one activity to another at will when his time schedule\u00a0demanded it. This included not only work. I always marveled when we shared a room\u00a0at a meeting or convention when my roommate declared, “Time to sleep”; turned\u00a0around and was asleep. I also admired his ability to say “I am wrong” in the few\u00a0instances when this was required. Honesty, another of his character traits, demanded\u00a0this from him. His ability to absorb and retain information was incredible. He read\u00a0everything, knew what he read and where he read a given bit of information.<\/p>\n

Donald Treadgold loved travel, good food, fine wines. He loved classical music,\u00a0especially opera, and relaxed in the swimming pool and on the handball court. This\u00a0much everybody knew who had more than a passing acquaintance with him. What\u00a0most people did not realize was that he had a magnificent sense of humor and appreciated\u00a0a-good joke, even a practical one at his expense. This is something those of\u00a0us who had lunch with him regularly will miss together with everything else which he represented. Their feeling of loss is shared by the many colleagues and friends, in and\u00a0out of academia, all over the world who profited from Professor Treadgold’s help and\u00a0advice, enjoyed his company and loved him. I am certain that Professor Treadgold\u00a0had his weaknesses and faults like all human beings, but well and closely as I knew\u00a0him, I cannot think of anything that would have bothered me in his case.<\/p>\n

PETER F. SUGAR (d. 1999)
\nProfessor Emeritus
\nUniversity of Washington<\/p>\n

Title:\u00a0 Donald W. Treadgold: 1922-1994
\nAuthor(s):\u00a0 Peter F. Sugar
\nSource:\u00a0 Slavic Review, Vol. 54, No. 2\u00a0 (Summer, 1995), pp. 560-562
\nPublisher(s): Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
\nStable URL:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/2501732<\/a><\/p>\n

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