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Yes, he has lived.(Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger)(Book Review)

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Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger, by Richard Pipes (Yale, 264 pp., $30)

FOR half a century, Richard Pipes has been one of the world's foremost scholars of Russia, and a man of political and policy influence as well: In the 1970s, he headed "Team B," the group directed to challenge the CIA's assumptions about the Soviet Union (which were wrong). And in the early 1980s, he served on the National Security Council staff of President Reagan. From the time of his birth in Cieszyn, Poland, to now, when he has assumed emeritus status at Harvard, Pipes has lived a rich, meaningful life. Fortunately, he has the ability to recount it, richly and meaningfully.

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