Born 1913. Moore is a comparitive historian, whose works include 1966's Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy . Moore worked as a policy analyst for the U.S. government during World War II. In the 1950's he was based at Harvard's Russian research centre, also writing books concentrating on the Soviet Union at the time. In 1958 he published a book of essays on methodology and theory, entitled Political Power and Social Theory , in which he attacked the methodological outlook of 1950's social science. Whilst at Harvard, his students included comparative social scientist Theda Skocpol.
Other works include, Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery (1972) and .
