Biography
I am Associate Professor in Modern European History and co-director of the Labour History Research Unit at Anglia Ruskin University. I have been a Course Director at the Cambridge Summer School for more than 20 years and have been a Russian historian for even longer. My interest in Russia began when I visited Moscow and St. Petersburg a few months after the collapse of the Soviet Union. I am especially interested in the revolutionary period, the Stalin years, and the collapse of the USSR, and I have published widely on Soviet and Anglo-Soviet history. My works include The Historical Dictionary of the Russian Revolution, Stalin: From Grey Blur to Great Terror, The Labour Party and the Wider World and Britain’s Second Labour Government, 1929–1931: A Reappraisal.