Brown, J. F.
JAMES F. BROWN (1928–2009), a widely recognized expert on Eastern Europe during the Cold War, spent twenty-seven years at Radio Free Europe, retiring as director in 1983. He was subsequently an associate of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford; member of the RAND Corporation research staff; fellow at the RFE/RL Research Institute; fellow at Aspen Institute Berlin; and visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the American University, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. He is the author of The New Eastern Europe (1966), Surge to Freedom: The End of Communist Rule in Eastern Europe (1991), Hopes and Shadows: Eastern Europe after Communism (1994), and three other books on Eastern Europe. He received an M.A. in history from Manchester University and served four years in the Royal Air Force.
