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Christopher Read

Christopher Read is a British historian of the Soviet Union.

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Christopher Read
Born1946 (age 79–80)
OccupationHistorian
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Keele, University of Glasgow, London School of Economics
Academic work
DisciplineHistory of the Soviet Union
Sub-discipline
  • Intellectual history of the Russian intelligentsia 1900 - 1925
  • Social history of the Russian Revolution
Institutions1973- History Department, University of Warwick
WebsitePublications by Christopher Read at ResearchGate

Christopher Read (born 1946)1 is a British historian of the Soviet Union.

Works

  • Religion, Revolution and The Russian Intelligentsia (1979)2
  • Culture and Power in Revolutionary Russia (1990)3
  • From Tsar to Soviets: The Russian People and Their Revolution (1996)4
  • The Making and Breaking of the Soviet System: An Interpretation (2001)5
  • The Stalin Years: A Reader (2003)6
  • Lenin: A Revolutionary Life (2005)7
  • War and Revolution in Russia: 1914–22, The Collapse of Tsarism and the Establishment of Soviet Power (2013)8
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References

  1. "Read, Christopher, 1946-". id.loc.gov. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
  2. Thatcher, Ian D. (2004). "Stalin and Stalinism: A Review Article". Europe-Asia Studies. 56 (6): 907–919. doi:10.1080/0966813042000258105. ISSN 0966-8136. JSTOR 4147372. S2CID 154510293.
  3. Shlapentokh, Dmitry (2008). "Review of Lenin: A Revolutionary Life". The Historian. 70 (1): 175–176. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2008.00205_65.x. ISSN 0018-2370. JSTOR 24454396. S2CID 145387969.
  4. Aust, Martin (2016). "Review of War and Revolution in Russia, 1914-22. The Collapse of Tsarism and the Establishment of Soviet Power. = European History in Perspective; Imperial Apocalypse. The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire. = The Greater War". Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (in German). 64 (1): 113–115. ISSN 0021-4019. JSTOR 43819824.
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