Stephen White (political scientist)
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Stephen Leonard White (1 July 1945 – 15 November 2023) was a British political scientist and historian, emeritus professor at University of Glasgow.{{Who's Who|title=White, Prof. Stephen Leonard|id=U251483}}[https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/author/stephen-leonard-white Stephen Leonard White], a SAGE Publications author's profile[https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/stephenwhite/ "Professor Stephen White"], at the University of Glasgow website (retrieved January 12, 2018)[http://www.worldwhoswho.com/public/views/entry.html?id=sl2177613 WHITE Stephen ], World Who's Who He wrote many articles and books about the politics of the Soviet Union and Russia.[https://books.google.com/books/about/Political_Culture_and_Soviet_Politics.html?id=9_WuQgAACAAJ About the author] of the book Political Culture and Soviet Politics, 1979
Life
Stephen White was born in Dublin.{{cite news |last1=Hutcheson |first1=Derek S. |title=Stephen White obituary: Glasgow professor and leading authority on Soviet politics |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/24248479.stephen-white-leading-authorities-soviet-politics/ |work=The Herald |date=13 April 2024 |language=en}} He 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. He took a DPhil in politics at Wolfson College, Oxford. White was awarded the Marshall Scholarship.
His positions included 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, and adjunct professor of European Studies at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center.[https://books.google.com/books?id=DG9qjN-Q3wgC About the author]
of Understanding Russian Politics, 2011
From 2002 he was Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/stephen-white/ Professor Stephen Leonard White FBA FRSE] In 2010 he became a Fellow of the British Academy, Section S5 Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and International Relations.[https://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-stephen-white Professor Stephen White] at British Academy website
Until 2011 he was a co-editor of The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics. He died in Glasgow.
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}}
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Category:British political scientists
Category:Academics of the University of Glasgow
Category:Alumni of the University of Glasgow