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.
Veteran RFE insider J. F. Brown’s story of the critical role Radio Free Europe played during the Cold War is the 53rd volume in the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series. Brown, a widely recognized expert on Eastern Europe who served as RFE director in 1978–83, offers a balanced and penetrating analysis...