Stephen White (political scientist)

For American political scientist, see Stephen K. White.

Stephen Leonard White (born 1 July 1945, Dublin, Ireland[citation needed], deceased 15 November 2023, Glasgow) was a British political scientist and historian, emeritus professor at University of Glasgow,[1][2][3] an author of many articles and books about politics of Soviet Union and Russia.[4][3]

Stephen White graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with degrees in history and political science, and then completed a PhD in Soviet studies at University of Glasgow (spending a year at Moscow State University as an exchange student) and a DPhil in politics at Wolfson College, Oxford.[2] White was awarded the Marshall Scholarship.

His positions include James Bryce Professor of Politics, a Senior Research Associate of the School of Central and East European Studies at University of Glasgow, a visiting professor at the Institute of Applied Politics in Moscow,[2] and adjunct professor of European Studies at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center.[5]

Since 2002 he was Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[6] Since 2010 he was Fellow of the British Academy, Section S5 Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and International Relations.[2][7]

Until 2011 he was a co-editor of The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.[3]

Books

  • The USSR: Portrait of a Superpower, 1978, ISBN 9780216904859
  • Political Culture and Soviet Politics, 1979, Macmillan, ISBN 0333241576
  • Britain and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Study in the Politics of Diplomacy, 1920-1924, Holmes & Meier Publishers, Incorporated, 1980, ISBN 0841905134
  • (with Daniel Nelson) Communist Legislatures in Comparative Perspective, SUNY Press, 1982, ISBN 0873955676
  • (with John Gardner, George Schöpflin) Communist Political Systems: An Introduction, ISBN 0333323009 1982, 1984
  • Gorbachev in Power, 1990, ISBN 0521397235
  • After Gorbachev, 1993, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 052145896X
  • (with Graeme Gill, Darrell Slider) The Politics of Transition: Shaping a Post-Soviet Future, 1993, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521446341
  • Russia Goes Dry: Alcohol, State and Society, Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 0521558492
  • (with Richard Rose, Ian McAllister) How Russia Votes, Chatham House Publishers, 1997, ISBN 1566430372
  • (with Evan Mawdsley) The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: The Central Committee and Its Members 1917-1991, 2000, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198297386
  • Russia's New Politics: The Management of a Postcommunist Society, 2000, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521583195 (hardcover) ISBN 0521587379 (paperback)
  • (with Rick Fawn) Russia After Communism, Psychology Press, 2002, ISBN 0714652938
  • Communism and Its Collapse, 2002, Routhledge, ISBN 1134694237
  • The Origins of Detente: The Genoa Conference and Soviet-Western Relations, 1921-1922, 2002, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521526175
  • Understanding Russian Politics, 2011, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 1139496832 ("expands and replaces" Russia's New Politics, 2000)
  • (with Valentina Feklyunina) Identities and Foreign Policies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: The Other Europes, Springer, 2014, ISBN 1137453117

Edited collections

  • Developments in Soviet Politics, bookseries
  • Developments in Russian Politics, book series (9th edition, 2018)
  • Developments in Central and East European Politics, book series
  • Media, Culture and Society in Putin's Russia (2008, ISBN 0230524850)
  • Politics and the Ruling Group in Putin's Russia (2008)
  • Handbook of Reconstruction in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (1991, ISBN 0582085020

References

  1. ^ Stephen Leonard White, a SAGE Publications author's profile
  2. ^ a b c d "Professor Stephen White", at the University of Glasgow website (retrieved January 12, 2018)
  3. ^ a b c WHITE Stephen , World Who's Who
  4. ^ About the author of the book Political Culture and Soviet Politics, 1979
  5. ^ About the author of Understanding Russian Politics, 2011
  6. ^ Professor Stephen Leonard White FBA FRSE
  7. ^ Professor Stephen White at British Academy website