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Alexander Shtromas (Lithuanian: Aleksandras Štromas, 4 April 1931 in Kaunas, Lithuania – 12 June 1999 in Chicago) was a prominent Lithuanian political scientist, dissident, professor and author.
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Shtromas was born in Kaunas, Lithuania. During the Nazi occupation of Lithuania he was imprisoned in the Ghetto. After he was saved from the Ghetto, Shtromas was harbored by Antanas Sniečkus. He studied at Vilnius University, and later finished at Moscow State University. In 1964 Shtromas defended his doctoral thesis in law. Soon afterward Shtromas became a critic of the Soviet regime and was forced to emigrate. In 1973 he settled in the United Kingdom. There he became professor of Bradford University, and later worked in Salford University, and, until his death, at Hillsdale College. Aleksandras Shtromas died on 12 June 1999 in the US.