| AdminHistory | In July 1939 Pares handed over the Directorship of SSEES to Professor W H Rose. After the outbreak of war SSEES was evacuated to Oxford and Pares was briefly employed along with other SSEES staff at the Foreign Research and Press Department as a Russian specialist based at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House. This employment was terminated due, Pares believed, to official disapproval of his views on Anglo/Soviet relations. Pares wrote 'Russia' (London, 1940) at this time and he had also had a work published at the very beginning of the war 'The fall of the Russian monarchy: a study of evidence' (London, 1939). After the Soviet Union was invaded by Germany and became an ally in June 1941, Pares was given some official employment once more, giving seminars for Ministry of Information speakers on the Soviet Union. In 1942 Pares left Britain for the United States where he spent the remainder of his life. He travelled the country giving lectures on the Soviet Union and taught at various American universities, in particular Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville. In 1948 he published his memoirs 'A wandering student: the story of a purpose' (1948, Syracuse). Pares died in 1949. |