Ronald Hingley

Ronald Francis Hingley (26 April 1920, in Edinburgh – 23 January 2010) was an English scholar, translator and historian of Russia, specializing in Russian history and literature.

Hingley was the translator and editor of the nine-volume collection of Chekhov's works published by Oxford University Press between 1974 and 1980 (known as the Oxford Chekhov).^[1] He also wrote numerous books including biographies of Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Stalin and Boris Pasternak. He won the James Tait Black Award for his 1976 biography A New Life of Anton Chekhov. He also translated several works of Russian literature, among them Alexander Solzhenitsyn's classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich which Hingley co-translated with Max Hayward.

He was a governing body fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, from 1961 to 1987 and an emeritus fellow from 1987 onwards.

Selected works

• 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) - "An extensive, anecdotal exploration of the Russian mind and character portrays salient behavior traits and attitudes and examines characteristic social and cultural phenomena."^[2][3]
• Russian Revolution (Bodley Head Contemporary History) (Oct 22, 1970)
• The Tsars, Russian Autocrats, 1533-1917 (1968)
• Czars (1973)

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