Abstract
The article features Philip Edward Mosely, an influential Sovietologist of the Cold War. Born in the 1910s in Westfield , Massachussetts, he began interested with Russia as a young student until his graduate study in history by writing a dissertation on Russian Diplomacy in the 1830s. Before becoming the Russian Institute Director in 1951, Mosely built a Russianist empire at Columbia University insisting that Soviet Studies could serve U.S. interest if centrally coordinated. He helped establish the Joint Committee on Slavic Studies.