Ronald Hingley

Ronald Francis Hingley (born April 26, 1920 in Edinburgh ; died January 23, 2010 ) was a British literary scholar and historian who specialized in Russian history and literature and also translated.

He taught Russian literature at St Antony's College, Oxford . Among other things, he was editor of Oxford Chekhov (an edition of Chekhov's works published by Oxford University Press from 1974 to 1980 ) and the anthology Soviet Prose . He wrote biographical studies on Josef Stalin , Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Anton Chekhov and Boris Pasternak and others and translated Chekhov and Solzhenitsyn into English , among others .

Publications (selection)

Nihilists. Russian Radicals and Revolutionaries in the Reign of Alexander II, 1855–81. (Nihilists. Russian radicals and revolutionaries in the reign of Alexander II, 1855–81.) Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1967.
A Concise History of Russia (1972)
Russia: A Concise History (1991)
A Life of Chekhov (Oxford Lives) (1989)
A New Life of Anton Chekhov (1976)
Pasternak (1983)
Dostoyevsky, his life and work (1978)
Joseph Stalin: Man and Legend (Leaders of Our Time) (1974)
The Undiscovered Dostoyevsky (1962)
Nightingale fever: Russian poets in revolution (1981)
Russian Writers and Society in the Nineteenth Century (1977)
Russian Writers and Soviet Society, 1917–1978 (1979)
The Russian Secret Police: Muscovite, Imperial Russian and Soviet Political Security Operations (1970)
A People in Turmoil: Revolutions in Russia (1973)
The Russian Mind (May 25, 1978)
Russian Revolution (Bodley Head Contemporary History) (Oct 22, 1970)
The Tsars, Russian Autocrats, 1533-1917 (1968)
Czars (1973)

Russian for beginners: a BBC publication. London: British Broadcasting Corporation

personal data
SURNAME	Hingley, Ronald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hingley, Ronald Francis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British literary scholar and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	April 26, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Edinburgh
DATE OF DEATH	January 23, 2010