Faculty Postholders
Dr David Priestland
M.A., D.Phil.
University Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History, Fellow of St Edmund Hall
Email: david.priestland@seh.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Dr Priestland has research interests in two areas: the history of the Soviet Union, and in particular the relationship between politics and ideology; the comparative history of communist regimes, which is the subject of his latest book project.
Supervision Interests
History of the Soviet Union History of communist regimes
Selected Publications:
- 'Marx and the Kremlin: Writing on Marxism-Leninism and Soviet politics after the fall of Communism', Journal of Political Ideologies. Vol 5, 3 (2000) pp. 377-390
- 'Soviet Democracy, 1917-1991', European History Quarterly. Vol 32 (1) (2002) pp. 111-130
- 'Stalin as Bolshevik Romantic: Ideology and Mobilisation, 1917-1939' in Stalin. A New History. (Cambridge, 2005) pp. 181-201
- Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization. Ideas, Power and Terror in Inter-war Russia. (Oxford, 2007) 487pp.
Future Publications:
- 'Escaping the Liberal Paradigm: Ideology and the High Politics of Stalinism, 1928-1953' in . (http://oxhistonline.modhist.ox.ac.uk/publications/22/, 2007)
- The Rise and Fall of the Communist World. (London, 2007)
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