# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/merle-fainsod
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:04:31.503Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/merle-fainsod"
name: "Merle Fainsod"
slug: "merle-fainsod"
description: "Merle Fainsod was an American political scientist best known for his work on public administration and as a scholar of the Soviet Union. His books Smolensk under Soviet Rule, based on documents captured by the German Army during World War II, and How Russia is Ruled helped form the basis of American study of the Soviet Union, and established him \"as a leading political scientist of the Soviet Union.\" Fainsod is also remembered for his work in the Office of Price Administration and as the director of the Harvard University Library."
tagline: "American political scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Merle_Fainsod.tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1907-05-02"
deathDate: "1972-02-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.79
  momentum:             6.338028169014084
  historical:           5.678258666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Fainsod"
    title: "Merle Fainsod"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AF"
    title: "ميرل فينسود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Fainsod"
    title: "Merle Fainsod"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A2%85%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E8%B4%B9%E6%81%A9%E7%B4%A2%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "梅尔·费恩索德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Fainsod"
    title: "Merle Fainsod"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Fainsod"
    title: "Merle Fainsod"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6819677"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump