Nationality American Occupation Historian, author | Name Richard Stites | |
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Died March 7, 2010, Helsinki, Finland Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Revolutionary dreams, The women's liberation, Russian Popular Culture: E, A History of Russia: Peoples, The Four Horsemen: Riding to Similar People Peter Kenez, Aviel Roshwald, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Loren Graham, Alexander Bogdanov | ||
Education Harvard University (1968) | ||
The Struggle Over the Eurasian Borderlands with Alfred J. Rieber (1st Memorial Stites Lecture)
Richard Thomas Stites (December 2, 1931 – March 7, 2010) was a historian of Russian culture and professor of history at Georgetown University. He received his PhD from Harvard where his advisor was Richard Pipes.
In 1978 he published The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilism and Bolshevism, 1860-1930, a book that opened up a new area of Russian studies.
In 1984, he wrote the introductory essay for an English translations of Alexander Bogdanov's science fiction novel Red Star.
In 1989 he published Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution.
He also edited several books on Russian popular culture, notably Bolshevik Culture (1985), Mass Culture in Soviet Russia and Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia (both in 1995).
He died in Helsinki, Finland from complications of cancer on March 7, 2010, aged 78.