Professor Geoffrey Hosking FBA

Political, social and cultural history of Russia and the Soviet Union; the history of trust and social solidarity
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1993
Subjects
History

Current post

University College London Emeritus Professor of Russian History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies

Past appointments

University College London Emeritus Professor of Russian History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London

2008 -

School of Slavonic & East European Studies University of London Leverhulme Research Professor of Russian History

1999 - 2004

School of Slavonic & East European Studies University of London Professor of Russian History (84-99 and 04-07)

1984 - 2007

University of Essex Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader in Russian History

1966 - 1984

Publications

Trust: a History

Geoffrey Hosking - Published in 2014 by Oxford University Press

Russian History: A Very Short Introduction

Geoffrey Hosking - Published in 2012 by Oxford University Press

Russia and the Russians

Geoffrey Hosking - Published in 2011 by Harvard University Press

Trust: money, markets and society

Geoffrey Hosking - Published in 2010 by The University of Chicago Press

Rulers and Victims: the Russians in the Soviet Union

Geoffrey Hosking - Published in 2006 by Harvard University Press

Russia: people and empire, 1552-1917

Geoffrey Hosking - Published in 1998 by Harvard University Press

A History of the Soviet Union

Geoffrey Hosking - Published in 1992 by Harper Collins Publishers

Beyond Socialist Realism: Soviet Fiction Since Ivan Denisovich

Geoffrey Hosking - Published in 1980 by Holmes & Meier

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