What is Richard Pipes?
{{Infobox person |name = Richard Pipes |image = Richard Pipes 2004.JPG |caption = Richard Pipes in October 2004 |birth_name = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|7|11}} |birth_place = [[Cieszyn]], [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]] |death_date = {{death date and age|2018|5|17|1923|7|11}} |death_place = [[Belmont, Massachusetts]], [[United States|U.S.]] |residence = |nationality = Polish |other_names = |alma_mater = [[Cornell University]]<br>[[Harvard University]] |occupation = Historian |home_town = |spouse = Irene Eugenia Roth |title = |religion = |children = [[Daniel Pipes]] |relations = |awards = [[National Humanities Medal]] |footnotes = }} '''Richard Edgar Pipes''' (July 11, 1923 &ndash; May 17, 2018) was a Polish-American academic. His works were about [[Russian history]], especially relating to the [[Soviet Union]]. He held strong [[anti-communist]] points of view throughout his career. In 1976 he headed [[Team B]], a team of analysts organized by the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] who analyzed the strategic capacities and goals of the Soviet military and political leadership. Pipes is the father of American historian and expert on American foreign policy and the Middle East, [[Daniel Pipes]]. ==Early life== Pipes was born to a [[Jewish]] family in [[Cieszyn]], Poland, which fled the country as refugees after it was invaded by [[Nazi Germany]]. Settling in the United States in 1940, he became a [[naturalized citizen]] in 1943 while serving in the [[United States Army Air Corps]]. From 1958 to 1996, Pipes worked at [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historia.uwazamrze.pl/artykul/774489,949992.html?p=4 |title=:: Uważam Rze Historia |publisher=Historia.uwazamrze.pl |access-date=2015-02-23 |archive-date=2015-02-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216095659/http://www.historia.uwazamrze.pl/artykul/774489,949992.html?p=4 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==Recent activities== He was a member of