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John Peter Nettl (1926–1968) was a historian best known for his two-volume biography of Rosa Luxemburg, which The New York Times described as a classic work that did full justice to her political activity, context, theoretical contributions, and personality.

He was born in 1926 in Czechoslovakia. He went to school at Marlborough and Oxford. He served in British army intelligence during the Second World War. He worked briefly for his family's business, but in 1963 returned to academia as a reader in politics and social studies at Oxford then Leeds. He married Marietta Nettl and together they had three children. He had recently accepted a chair of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania when he was one of the 32 people killed (out of 42 total passengers and crew) when Northeast Airlines Flight 946 crashed in Hanover, New Hampshire on October 25, 1968. He was traveling with his wife who survived and was treated for a fractured arm.

Works

• The Eastern Zone and Soviet Policy in Germany (1951)
• Rosa Luxemburg (1966)
• The Soviet Achievement (1967)
• International Systems and the Modernization of Societies (1968, with Roland Robertson)

References

1. Kamenka, Eugene (June 14, 1987). "Revolutionary with a Human Face". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
2. "Obituary: Dr. Peter Nettl". The Jewish Chronicle. London, United Kingdom. November 8, 1968. p. 43.
3. "Nine Area Persons Are Among 32 Killed in Airplane Crash". The Times-Argus. Barre-Montpelier, Vermont. October 26, 1968.
4. Phillips, Paul (1952). "Review of The Eastern Zone and Soviet Policy in Germany". Science & Society. 16 (4): 363–365. ISSN 0036-8237. JSTOR 40400153.
5. • Angress, Werner T. (1967). "Review of Rosa Luxemburg". The Journal of Modern History. 39 (4): 471–472. doi:10.1086/240151. ISSN 0022-2801. JSTOR 1875768.
   • Bahne, Siegfried (1967). Nettl, J. P. (ed.). "Rosa Luxemburg". Politische Vierteljahresschrift (in German). 8 (2): 357–362. ISSN 0032-3470. JSTOR 24194238.
   • Baron, Samuel H. (1967). "Review of Rosa Luxemburg". The Russian Review. 26 (1): 88–90. doi:10.2307/126876. ISSN 0036-0341. JSTOR 126876.
   • Brahm, heinz (1969). "Review of Rosa Luxemburg. I-II; Rosa Luxemburg". Historische Zeitschrift (in German). 208 (1): 158–159. ISSN 0018-2613. JSTOR 27615196.
   • Carsten, F. L. (1967). "Review of Rosa Luxemburg". The Slavonic and East European Review. 45 (105): 560–562. ISSN 0037-6795. JSTOR 4205905.
   • Hobsbawm, E. J. (1967). "Review of Rosa Luxemburg". The Economic History Review. 20 (2): 412–413. doi:10.2307/2592190. ISSN 0013-0117. JSTOR 2592190.
   • Mattick, Paul (1967). "Review of Rosa Luxemburg". Science & Society. 31 (1): 108–114. ISSN 0036-8237. JSTOR 40401264.
   • McNeal, Robert H. (1966). "Review of Rosa Luxemburg". The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science. 32 (4): 540–542. doi:10.2307/139905. ISSN 0315-4890. JSTOR 139905.
   • Odegard, Peter H. (1967). "Review of Rosa Luxemburg". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 370: 213–214. ISSN 0002-7162. JSTOR 1038102.
   • "Review of Rosa Luxemburg". The Antioch Review. 34 (1/2): 249–250. 1975. ISSN 0003-5769. JSTOR 4637758.
   • Sapir, Boris (1968). "Review of Rosa Luxemburg". Slavic Review. 27 (1): 146–148. doi:10.2307/2493934. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 2493934. S2CID 165064001.
   • Schorske, Carl E. (1968). "Review of Rosa Luxemburg". The American Historical Review. 73 (4): 1140–1141. doi:10.2307/1847439. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 1847439.
   • Wallace, W. V. (1967). "Review of Rosa Luxemburg. Vols. I and II". International Affairs. 43 (1): 152–154. doi:10.2307/2612563. ISSN 0020-5850. JSTOR 2612563.
6. • Austin, Anthony (November 10, 1968). "The Soviet Achievement". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
   • Ellison, Herbert J. (1970). "Review of The Soviet Achievement". Slavic Review. 29 (3): 519–520. doi:10.2307/2493180. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 2493180.
   • Lively, Jack (1971). "Review of The Soviet Achievement; The Impact of the Russian Revolution. 1917–1967. Issued Under the Auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs". History. 56 (186): 136–138. ISSN 0018-2648. JSTOR 24407281.
   • Pethybridge, R. W. (1968). "Review of The Soviet Achievement". International Affairs. 44 (2): 349. doi:10.2307/2613170. ISSN 0020-5850. JSTOR 2613170.
   • "Rev. of The Soviet Achievement". Kirkus Reviews. January 1967. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
   • Ulam, Adam B. (October 1, 1968). "The Soviet Achievement, by J. P. Nettl". Commentary Magazine. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
7. Schott, John (1971). "Review of International Systems and the Modernization of Societies.; Politics and Change in Developing Countries". American Journal of Sociology. 76 (4): 758–761. doi:10.1086/224987. ISSN 0002-9602. JSTOR 2776444.

External links

• J. P. Nettl at Find a Grave

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