Stephen Anthony Smith, FBA,

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(born 1952) is a British historian and academic. Since 2012, he has been Professor of History at the

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. Smith was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1995,"Smith, Prof. Stephen Anthony"
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, December 2018). Retrieved 28 August 2019. and a Fellow of the

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, the United Kingdom's

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, in 2014. Born in 1952, Smith completed his

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(1970–73),"Professor Stephen Smith"
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''. Retrieved 28 August 2019. graduating with a modern history degree. In 1974, he was then awarded a

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degree in

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from the

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, where he remained to carry out doctoral studies; his

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was awarded in 1980 for his

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"The Russian Revolution and the factories of Petrograd, February 1917 to June 1918"."The Russian Revolution and the factories of Petrograd, February 1917 to June 1918"
''EThOS'' (

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). Retrieved 28 August 2019. While completing his PhD, Smith taught at the

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from 1976 to 1977, and then joined the faculty of the

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as a

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in 1977. He was promoted to a senior lectureship in 1984 and was then appointed

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of History in 1991. In 2008, he moved to the

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to be Professor of Comparative History, and remained there until 2012, when he was appointed Professor of History at the

and a

. He was also editor of the journal '' Past & Present'' from 2009 to 2014.

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." * '' 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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Stephen Living people 1952 births Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford Alumni of the University of Birmingham Academics of the University of Essex Academic staff of the European University Institute Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Royal Historical Society