Edinburgh
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– 23 January 2010) was an English scholar, translator and historian of Russia, specializing in Russian history and literature.
Hingley was the translator and editor of the nine-volume collection of Chekhov's works published by
Oxford University Press
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between 1974 and 1980 (known as the Oxford Chekhov). He also wrote numerous books including biographies of
Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; ; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, widely considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his b ...
,
Dostoyevsky
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,
Stalin
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and
Boris Pasternak
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Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, ''My Sister, Life'', was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an imp ...
. He won the James Tait Black Award for his 1976 biography ''A New Life of Anton Chekhov''. He also translated several works of Russian literature, among them
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was a ...
's classic ''
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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He was a governing body fellow of
St Antony's College, Oxford
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, from 1961 to 1987 and an emeritus fellow from 1987 onwards.
Selected works
* A Concise History of Russia (1972)
* Russia : A Concise History (1991)
* A Life of Chekhov (Oxford Lives) (1989)
* A New Life of Anton Chekhov (1976)
* Pasternak (1983)
* Dostoyevsky, his life and work (1978)
* Joseph Stalin: Man and Legend (Leaders of Our Time) (1974)
* The Undiscovered Dostoyevsky (1962)
* Nightingale fever: Russian poets in revolution (1981)
* Russian Writers and Society in the Nineteenth Century (1977)
* Russian Writers and Soviet Society, 1917-1978 (1979)
* The Russian Secret Police: Muscovite, Imperial Russian and Soviet Political Security Operations (1970)
* A People in Turmoil: Revolutions in Russia (1973)
* The Russian Mind (May 25, 1978) - "An extensive, anecdotal exploration of the Russian mind and character portrays salient behavior traits and attitudes and examines characteristic social and cultural phenomena."The Russian Mind
Kirkus Reviews
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