The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism
Edited by S. A. Smith
Author Information
S. A. Smith is at University of Essex. He was a graduate student at Moscow State University and Peking University in the late 1970s and early 1980s and taught for many years at the University of Essex. More recently, he was professor of comparative history at the European University Institute, Florence. He has written extensively on the Russian and Chinese Revolutions, and is currently writing a book which compares the efforts of the Soviet and Chinese Communist regimes to eliminate 'superstition' from daily life, in areas such as popular religion, calendrical and life-cycle rituals, agriculture, and folk medicine, and which explores how sections of the populace engaged the regimes through 'politics of the supernatural'.
Contributors:
Marco Albeltaro, University of Turin
Anne Alexander, University of Cambridge
Anna Belogurova, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Maud Anne Bracke, University of Glasgow
Paul Betts, St Antony's College, Oxford
Susan Brownell, University of Missouri-St Louis
Jeremy Brown, Simon Fraser University
Paresh Chattopadhyay, University of Quebec
Timothy Cheek, University of British Columbia
Allison Drew, University of York
Robert Edelman, University of California, San Diego
Adrienne Edgar, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jean-François Fayet, University of Geneva
Sheila Fitzpatrick, University of Chicago
Donald Filtzer, University of East London
Mark Gamsa, Tel Aviv University
Mike Gonzalez, Glasgow University
Mark Harrison, University of Warwick
Donna Harsch, Carnegie Mellon University
Anke Hilbrenner, University of Bonn
Richard King, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Pavel Kolár, European University Institute, Florence
Daniel Leese, Freiburg University
Lars T. Lih, McGill University
Kevin McDermott, Sheffield Hallam University
Richard Madsen, University of California, San Diego
Matthias Middell, Leipzig University
Tim Rees, University of Exeter
Sergey Radchenko, University of Nottingham, Ningbo China
Geoffrey Roberts, University College Cork
S. A. Smith, All Souls College, Oxford
Julia Strauss, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Balázs Szalontai, Kwangwoon University, Seoul
Alexander Vatlin, Moscow State University
Tuong Vu, University of Oregon
Dean Vuletic, University of Vienna
Felix Wemheuer, University of Vienna
Yang Kuisong, East China Normal University, Shanghai