Nicholas V. Riasanovsky

Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky^[a] (December 21, 1923 – May 14, 2011^[1]) was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of numerous books on Russian history and European intellectual history.

Biography

Nicolai Valentinovitch Riasanovskiy was born in China on 21 December 1923 in

.

From 1949 to 1957 Riasanovsky taught at the

Fulbright Scholar

at the University of Helsinki (1954-1955).

From 1957 until his retirement in 1997 he taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and published Nicholas I and Official Nationality in Russia (1959) and his best-selling A History of Russia (1963). The latter was in its eighth edition in 2010 (now co-authored with Mark D. Steinberg, a former student of Riasanovsky's) and has been acclaimed for its continued comprehensiveness.^[4]

Riasanovsky died in

, California, USA, on May 14, 2011, at the age of 87.

Bibliography

• Nicholas I and Official Nationality in Russia, 1825-1855 (1959) online no charge borrow
• A History of Russia 1st ed 1963
  • 2nd ed 1968
  • 3rd ed
  • 4th ed
  • 5th ed
  • Riasanovsky, Nicholas (2000). A History of Russia (6th ed.). Oxford, England: Oxford UP.
  • 7th ed
  • 8th ed 2010
  • 9th ed 2018
• "Oral history transcript" (1998) online

Footnotes

Notes

References

• Daly, Jonathan, “The Pleiade: Five Scholars Who Founded Russian Historical Studies in America,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 18, no. 4 (Fall 2017): 785–826.
• New York Times obituary
• Faculty profile at UC Berkeley
• Oral History: Professor of Russian and European Intellectual History, University of California, Berkeley, 1957-1997