Leonard Schapiro
Leonard Schapiro · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Historian of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party; foundational Sovietologist
1908, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom — 1983, London, England, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Leonard Schapiro is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Historian of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party; foundational Sovietologist
Schapiro was a British historian and a founder of modern Sovietology, whose books 'The Origin of the Communist Autocracy' (1955) and 'The Communist Party of the Soviet Union' (1960) became standard works on the Soviet system. He taught at the London School of Economics. He was born in Glasgow to a Russian Jewish family and spent part of his childhood in Riga and revolutionary Petrograd.
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Historian of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party; foundational Sovietologist
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Political Philosophy & Science
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