Dominic Lieven

Dominic Lieven is Professor of Russian Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Fellow of the British Academy^[1][2][3]and of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the elder brother of Anatol Lieven, and a brother of Elena Lieven.

Russian Government and Empire

Dominic Lieven graduated first in the class of 1973 in history from Cambridge University and was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard in 1973/4. Lieven is seen as a world-authority on Russian history and post-Soviet politics; and on empire and European history. Notably in the areas of comparative imperial history; problems of political stability on the European periphery 1860-1939, and Russia's confrontation with Napoleon 1807-14.^[4]

Key Publications

His main works include:

• 1983 Russia and the Origins of the First World War, Macmillan.
• 1989 Russia's Rulers under the Old Regime, Yale U.P.
• 1992 The Aristocracy in Europe 1815/1914, Macmillan/Columbia UP.
• 1993 Nicholas II, John Murray/St Martin's Press.
• 2000 Empire. The Russian Empire and its Rivals, John Murray/Yale U.P.
• 2009 Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814^[5][6]

See also

• Elena Lieven
• Anatol Lieven
• Dorothea Lieven
• Christopher Lieven

References

1. ^ http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/Experts/[e-mail]
2. ^ http://www2.lse.ac.uk/government/whosWho/profiles/dlieven@lseacuk/Home.aspx
3. ^ http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~conih/bios/lieven.htm
4. ^ http://academia-rossica.org/en/literature/russian-literature-week-2009/russian-literature-week-2008/speakers/dominic-lieven
5. ^ http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/esdaile_10_09.html The Bear Against The Cockrel, Charles Esdaile, 2009, published in the Literary Review
6. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/books/review/Mazower-t.html?ref=books, ‘War and Peace’: The Fact-Check, Mark Mazower, 2010, published in the New York Times.

External links

• Official Page

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