Armstrong, John Alexander

Armstrong, John Alexander, b 4 May 1922 in Saint Augustine, Florida, d 23 February 2010 in San Marco Terrace, Florida, USA. Political scientist. Armstrong received his doctorate from Columbia University. He taught comparative politics at the University of Colorado and Columbia University and after 1954 was a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Armstrong wrote extensively on government and politics in the USSR and was the author of Ukrainian Nationalism 1939–1945 (1955; 2nd edn 1963) and The Soviet Bureaucratic Elite: A Case Study of the Ukrainian Apparatus (1959).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]