Ronald Hingley
{{Short description|English scholar, translator and historian}}
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Ronald Francis Hingley (26 April 1920 in Edinburgh – 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 between 1974 and 1980 (known as the Oxford Chekhov).[http://www.lrb.co.uk/v02/n18/karl-miller/georgie LRB review by Karl Miller] He also wrote numerous books including biographies of Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Stalin and Boris Pasternak. 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's classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich which Hingley co-translated with Max Hayward.
He was a governing body fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, 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."July 1979. [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-politics/article/ideas-of-the-russian-mind-ronald-hingley-the-russian-mind-new-york-charles-scribners-sons-1977-pp-307-1250-deborah-hardy-petr-tkachev-the-critic-as-jacobin-seattle-university-of-washington-press-1977-pp-314-1250/2BB285D58EC76A15472983E719BA31A3 Ideas of the Russian Mind - Ronald Hingley: The Russian Mind.] (Review). cambridge.org. Volume 41, Issue 3. pp. 467-469.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670500028813[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/ronald-hingley/the-russian-mind/ The Russian Mind]. Kirkus Reviews.
- Russian Revolution (Bodley Head Contemporary History) (Oct 22, 1970)
- The Tsars, Russian Autocrats, 1533-1917 (1968)
- Czars (1973)
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