Georg von Rauch (historian)
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Georg Alexander Kornelius Erich von Rauch (1904–1991) was a
Baltic German historian specializing in Russia and the Baltic states.[1]
Rauch was born in
University of Kiel, where he became head of the Institute on East European History. His pioneering history of the Soviet Union
was translated into other languages and became a standard textbook.
His son was the anarchist Georg von Rauch, killed by the police in 1971.
Works
- Geschichte des bolschewistischen Russland (Wiesbaden: Rheinische Verlags-Anstalt, 1955); tr. as A History of Soviet Russia (New York: Praeger, 1957; rev. edd. 1958, 1962, 1964, 1967, 1972).
- Die Geschichte der baltischen Staaten (München: Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag, 1990); tr. as The Baltic States: The Years of Independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, 1917–1940 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995).
References
- ^ "Rauch, Georg von - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 21 January 2022.
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