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Robert H. (Hatch) McNeal (1930- ) is an American historian and author an expert on the history of the Soviet Union.Robert Hatch McNeal was born in 1930 in Newark New Jersey. In 1952 he earned his B.A. from Yale University and his M.A. (1954) and Ph.D. (1958) from Columbia University. In 1969 McNeal joined the University of Massachusetts Amherst and headed its History department from 1971 to 1975.