Richard Lorenz (historian)

Richard Lorenz (born February 4, 1934 in Ernstthal ) is a German historian of Eastern Europe who deals in particular with the economic and social history of the Soviet Union.

Lorenz studied from 1952 at the University of Leipzig and from 1957 in West Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Marburg, where he received his doctorate in 1964. He then taught there at the seminar for Eastern European history and completed his habilitation in 1971 (The end of the new economic policy. On the prehistory of Stalinism (1927–1929)). Until 2001 he was Professor of Eastern European History at the University of Kassel .

Fonts

• Co-author Russia , Fischer World History , Volume 31, 1968
• with Manfred von Boetticher, Bianka Pietrow-Ennker The Russian Revolution 1917: the uprising of the workers, peasants and soldiers: a documentation , Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung 1981
• Beginnings of Bolshevik industrial policy , Cologne 1965
• Social history of the Soviet Union 1: 1917-1945, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-518-00654-1 .
• Editor: Proletarian Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia (1917–1921) , Munich 1969
• Editor with Hermann Weber, Dietrich Staritz, Siegfried Bahne Communists persecute communists: Stalinist terror and "purges" in the communist parties of Europe since the 1930s , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1993
• Upheaval in a Society: On the Social History of the Chinese Revolution (1911–1949) , Suhrkamp 1977
• with Ingrid Baumgärtner u. a .: The dawning of power. Of the fall of great empires. Fischer Paperback 2000

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography based on Fischer Weltgeschichte, Volume 31