These pages contain some profiles of prominent Russian Revolution historians. They include some brief biographical information, a list of texts the historian has written or contributed to, a summary of their historiographical positions and a few quotations. These profiles have been written and compiled...
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The greatest historian is a difficult choice but my vote goes toChristopher Hillfor his work on the 17th century and the English Revolution. He transformed the way people thought about the Civil Wars and his output was astonishing. And yes I was trained by a Marxist historian (the late Gwyn...
C. Hill (1953)Lenin and the Russian Revolution, 3rd ed. (London: English University Press), p. XIV. 28. See ‘The Tenth International Congress of the Historical Sciences’ (1955)Past and Present, VIII, 83–90, 84–85 and in addition K. D. Erdmann (1987)Die Ökumene der Historiker...
s theory of historical materialism, which asserts that society is defined by economic conditions and that “all history is the history of class struggle”. Marxist historians usually focus on the imbalanced relationship between wealth, power and labour, as well as the conditions and exploitation of...
Silly as it was, it actually presented the space of the temple more clearly than slides could." Craig Eliason, Rutgers University Death on the Nile -- 1978 "What about that Agatha Christie movie in which the protagonists spend a day climbing up the stone blocks of a pyramid in Egypt?" ...
to share some thoughts on this here because I believe this matters for the history of economics at least in two respects – 1) as a fragment in the (still largely unwritten) history of recent economics in Russia and beyond; and 2) as a view on the development of our discipline as such...