Geoffrey Hosking

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Geoffrey A. Hosking (born 1942, Scotland) is a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. He became professor of Russian history at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies - now part of University College, London - in 1984.

Hosking studied Russian at Cambridge University and European history at Oxford University before gaining his doctorate in modern Russian history. He moved to SSEES after teaching at the University of Essex.

Hosking presented the BBC Reith Lectures in 1988.

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• The Russian Constitutional Experiment - Government and the Duma 1907-1914 (1973)
• Beyond Socialist Realism: Soviet Fiction since Ivan Denisovich (1980)
• A History of the Soviet Union (1985)
• Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917 (1998) Harvard University Press ISBN 0-674-78119-8