{{Short description|American historian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} '''Abbott Gleason''' (21 July 1938 – 25 December 2015) was professor emeritus of history and faculty member at the Watson Institute, Brown University.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.browndailyherald.com/2014/10/17/trading-pen-paintbrush/|title=Trading the pen for the paintbrush|first=Eben|last=Blake|date=17 October 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://watson.brown.edu/news/2015/abbott-gleason-scholar-russian-history-and-culture-dies-77|title=Abbott Gleason, scholar of Russian history and culture, dies at 77 - Watson Institute|website=Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/abbott-gleason-scholar-of-russian-history-and-culture-dies-at-77/2015/12/29/dcb3e8c6-ae43-11e5-9ab0-884d1cc4b33e_story.html|title=Abbott Gleason, scholar of Russian history and culture, dies at 77|first=Emily|last=Langer|date=29 December 2015|publisher=|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref> He graduated from Harvard University.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.harvard60.org/gleason.html | title=Harvard '60: Gleason Obit }}</ref>

==Selected publications== * ''European and Muscovite: Ivan Kireevsky and the Origins of Slavophilism'' 1972 * ''Young Russia: The Genesis of Russian Radicalism in the 1860s'' 1980 * ''Totalitarianism: The Inner History of the Cold War'' 1995 * ''A Liberal Education'' 2010

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== External links == * {{cite magazine|author=Gleason, Abbott|title=Twilight of a Historian|magazine=Brown Alumni Magazine|date=March 19, 2010|url=https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/2497/40/}} * {{cite web|date=January 20, 2016|title=A Liberal Education|publisher=Good News Rhode Island|website=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdNY-9OFgoM}} (Abbott Gleason interviewed by Juliana Collins Anderson)

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