Catherine Merridale

Catherine Merridale, 2017

Catherine Merridale (born October 12, 1959 in Great Britain ) is a British historian , university professor and author .

Life

Merridale learned the Russian language in her school days and visited the country at the age of 18. She completed her studies in history with a bachelor's degree in Cambridge at King's College there. She went to Moscow for a year for her dissertation on the CPSU under Josef Stalin . She received her PhD from Cambridge in 1987 and was subsequently a lecturer at King's College. From 1993 to 2004 she was Professor of History at the University of Bristol and from 2004 to 2014 Professor of Contemporary History at Queen Mary University of London . After retiring from full-time academic work in 2014, she is now a research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research , University of London. Since then, she has also devoted herself to writing articles for trade journals, magazines and newspapers as a freelance writer.

Merridale is the author of several books on Russian and military history. Her contributions to magazines and newspapers have appeared in, for example, the London Review of Books , New Statesman , The Independent , The Guardian and Literary Review .

Britain's Heinemann Award for Literature for Night of Stone .
2006: Arthur Gutzeit Book Award for Best Book on Military History from the New York Military Affairs Symposium for Ivan's War .
Pushkin House Russian Book Prize for Red Fortress .
2013: Wolfson History Prize for Red Fortress .
2016: Member of the British Academy

Moscow Politics and the Rise of Stalin: The Communist Party in the Capital, 1925-1932 . St. Martin's Press, New York City 1990, ISBN 0-312-04799-1 .
The Communist Party in Moscow 1925-1932. University of Birmingham, 1987, OCLC 757129422 (Dissertation, Thesis (Ph. D.) University of Birmingham, 1987, 290 pages full text online PDF, free of charge, 290 pages, 19.9 MB).
Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia . Viking, New York City 2001, ISBN 0-670-89474-5 .
- Nights of stone: Living and dying in Russia , Blessing, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-89667-081-6 .
Culture and Combat Motivation . Sage Publications, London 2006.
Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 . Metropolitan Books, New York City 2006, ISBN 0-8050-7455-4 .
- Ivan's war. The Red Army 1939–1945 . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-10-048450-9 ; Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-596-17386-0 .
Red Fortress: History and Illusion in the Kremlin . Metropolitan Books, New York City 2013, ISBN 978-0-8050-8680-5 .
- The Kremlin. A new history of Russia . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-048451-2 .
Lenin's train. The journey into the revolution (original title: Lenin on the Train, translated by Bernd Rullkötter), S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-002274-5 .

↑ In the protection of the terribly beautiful fortress. In: FAZ . May 22, 2014, p. 10.
↑ Book presentation and reviews at Perlentaucher.de , accessed on April 5, 2017

personal data
SURNAME	Merridale, Catherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British historian, university professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH	October 12, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Great Britain