Born in Russia in 1901 as Abram Paretsky, he escaped Russia in 1920 and came to America in 1921. Changing his name to Albert Parry, in 1947, at Colgate, he started the first undergraduate Russian Studies program in America. Dying four months after the collapse of the USSR, he boasted, “I outlived the bastards.” His memoir recounts the life of a historian who lived history.