- Geoffrey Hosking
Geoffrey Alan Hosking (born
April 28 ,1942 ,Troon ,Ayrshire ,Scotland ) is ahistorian ofRussia and theSoviet Union and formerly Leverhulme Research Professor of Russian History at theSchool of Slavonic and East European Studies ,University College, London .Hosking studied Russian at King's College, Cambridge, earning an MA, before studying Russian history at
Moscow State University . He then studied European history at St. Anthony's College, Oxford, before gaining aPhD in modern Russian history at Cambridge.He taught at the
University of Essex as a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and then Reader from 1966 to 1984, before joining SSEES, where he held the established chair of Russian History from 1984 to 2007. He also held a Leverhulme Research Professorship in Russian History at SSEES from 1999 to 2004.He has been a visiting lecturer in
political science at theUniversity of Wisconsin , a research fellow atColumbia University 's Russian Institute, and a visiting professor at theUniversity of Cologne .Hosking presented the
BBC Reith Lectures in 1988.Hosking retired from UCL SSEES in December 2007. The established chair that he held was reinaugurated in 2008 as the Sir
Bernard Pares chair of Russian History. Its first incumbent was Hosking's former research student,Simon Dixon .Bibliography
* "The Russian Constitutional Experiment - Government and the Duma 1907-1914 (1973)
* "Beyond Socialist Realism: Soviet Fiction since Ivan Denisovich" (1980)
* "A History of the Soviet Union" (1985)
* "The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within" (1992, Second Enlarged Edition of "A History of the Soviet Union")
* "Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917" (1998)Harvard University Press ISBN 0-674-78119-8
* "Russia and the Russians" (2001)
* "Rulers and Victims - The Russians in the Soviet Union" (2005)
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