David Priestland

David Priestland is a British historian . He teaches modern history at Oxford University and is a fellow of St Edmund Hall . His research focus is on the history of the Soviet Union and the development of communism .

Fonts (selection)

• Stalinism and the politics of mobilization: ideas, power, and terror in inter-war Russia . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007
• The Red Flag . Allen Lane 2009, ISBN 978-0-71399-481-0 (The three English-language editions 2009-2010 each have different subtitles How Communism Changed The World. Communism and the Making of the Modern World. A History of Communism)
  • World history of communism. From the French Revolution to today . Translated by Klaus-Dieter Schmidt. Siedler, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-88680-708-6
  • World history of communism . Federal Agency for Political Education , Bonn ISBN 978-3-8389-0055-1 .
  • Russian edition: Красный флаг . история коммунизма, Krasnyi flag: Istorija kommunizma, ЭКСМО / EKSMO, Moskva 2011
• Merchant, soldier, sage: a history of the world in three castes . New York: The Penguin Press, 2013

Web links

• Literature by and about David Priestland in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about David Priestland in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Page of Priestland at Oxford University
• Communism's Path: A Once-Vigorous Idea That Has Lost Its Muscle Article by Dwight Garner, published December 9, 2009 in the New York Times .
• David Priestland: The cold warrior strategy lies in tatters . In: The Independent , July 6, 2004.