Stephen Smith (historian)
Stephen Anthony Smith,
senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Smith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1995,[1] and a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy, in 2014.[2]
Born in 1952,Soviet studies from the University of Birmingham, where he remained to carry out doctoral studies; his PhD was awarded in 1980[1] for his thesis "The Russian Revolution and the factories of Petrograd, February 1917 to June 1918".[4]
While completing his PhD, Smith taught at the
senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.[3] He was also editor of the journal Past & Present from 2009 to 2014.[1]
Research and bibliography
According to his college profile, Smith's "research interests are in the histories of modern Russia and China and in comparative Communism."[3]
- Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
- The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
- Revolution and the People in Russia and China: A Comparative History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
- (Co-authored with Alan Knight) The Religion of Fools? Superstition Past and Present, Past & Present supplement 3 (2008).
- The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
- Like Cattle and Horses: Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895–1927 (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2002).
- A Road is Made: Communism in Shanghai, 1920–27 (Honolulu/Richmond, UK: Curzon Press/University of Hawaii Press, 2000).
- Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories, 1917–1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).
References
- ^ a b c d e "Smith, Prof. Stephen Anthony", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ "Professor Stephen Smith FBA", British Academy. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Professor Stephen Smith", All Souls College, Oxford. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ "The Russian Revolution and the factories of Petrograd, February 1917 to June 1918", EThOS (British Library). Retrieved 28 August 2019.
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