Dr. Radvanyi passed away Monday...

[Maroon Eagle]

He taught two of the more enjoyable classes I had while I was a student at MSU.

Link to MSU press release: Here.

 

[futaba.79]

I asked him "Why MSU?" ............

he told me that the Soviets and Eastern Bloc countries would consider teaching at State as the equivalent of being banished to Siberia. He didn't have to continually look over his shoulder in Starkville. He taught me History of Russia and History of the Far East. Great classes. I worked for him when he hosted his conferences. It was amazing the people he would attract to those events.

 

[mrbinsdog]

What a man

he told me that the Soviets and Eastern Bloc countries would consider teaching at State as the equivalent of being banished to Siberia. He didn't have to continually look over his shoulder in Starkville. He taught me History of Russia and History of the Far East. Great classes. I worked for him when he hosted his conferences. It was amazing the people he would attract to those events.

I took every class he taught in the late '70's - early '80's and spent as much time as possible hanging out inn his office. Just soaking up every thing he said. He told me the same thing as he did you, futaba, about Starkville and MSU.

 

[futaba.79]

he partied with Mao ...............

and Kruschev. People that could say that were in a very small club.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Those conferences were awesome. I was in his History of Russia and Peace, War, and the USSR classes in the late 80s. He was the one professor my older sister (a Biological Sciences major) recommended whose class I should be in as she was in his History of Russia class a few years previously.

 

[Dawg1976]

Good write up in the link. Sorry I never had any of his classes. Interesting man.

 

[MaroonNation]

Probably the only person who could walk by Dorman and feel sentimental.

 

[dawgstudent]

That's a cool story

 

[mrbinsdog]

I think he got called to Moscow once to meet w/Stalin. If so, that constitutes

and Kruschev. People that could say that were in a very small club.

membership in an even smaller club - Those who did that & lived to tell about it.

 

[jdbulldog]

Nice obit for a fine man and teacher....thanks for the link.

 

[MagicDawg]

Just saw this sad news. I was a student associate of the Center for International Security and Strategic Studies back in the late 80s/early 90s. Dr. Radvanyi was an impressive man - not just a man of intellect and achievement, but a man whose personal experiences with communism gave him a practically unassailable authority on the subject.I'm headed back to Budapest in March and this trip to his home country will have a little extra meaning this time.Thanks for the opportunity to reminisce.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/János_Radványi

 

[grinnindawg]

He was an engaging and interesting professor.

Anyone who could start a story with "Nikita Khrushchev told me a story one time..." could keep your interest.
Still remember the story too.

Kept a term paper he graded just for his comments.