Stephen White (political scientist) explained

Stephen Leonard White (born 1 July 1945, Dublin, Ireland, deceased 15 November 2023, Glasgow) was British political scientist and historian, emeritus professor at University of Glasgow,^{[1] [2] [3]} an author of many articles and books about politics of Soviet Union and Russia.^{[4] [3]}

Stephen White graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with degrees in history and political science, and then completed a PhD in Soviet studies at University of Glasgow (spending a year at Moscow State University as an exchange student) and a DPhil in politics at Wolfson College, Oxford.^[2] White was awarded the Marshall Scholarship.

His positions include James Bryce Professor of Politics, a Senior Research Associate of the School of Central and East European Studies at University of Glasgow, a visiting professor at the Institute of Applied Politics in Moscow,^[2] and adjunct professor of European Studies at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center.^[5]

Since 2002 he was Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.^[6] Since 2010 he was Fellow of the British Academy, Section S5 Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and International Relations.^{[2] [7]}

Until 2011 he was a co-editor of The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.^[3]

Books

• The USSR: Portrait of a Superpower, 1978,
• Political Culture and Soviet Politics, 1979, Macmillan,
• Britain and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Study in the Politics of Diplomacy, 1920-1924, Holmes & Meier Publishers, Incorporated, 1980,
• (with Daniel Nelson) Communist Legislatures in Comparative Perspective, SUNY Press, 1982,
• (with John Gardner, George Schöpflin) Communist Political Systems: An Introduction, 1982, 1984
• Gorbachev in Power, 1990,
• After Gorbachev, 1993, Cambridge University Press,
• (with Graeme Gill, Darrell Slider) The Politics of Transition: Shaping a Post-Soviet Future, 1993, Cambridge University Press,
• Russia Goes Dry: Alcohol, State and Society, Cambridge University Press, 1996,
• (with Richard Rose, Ian McAllister) How Russia Votes, Chatham House Publishers, 1997,
• (with Evan Mawdsley) The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: The Central Committee and Its Members 1917-1991, 2000, Oxford University Press,
• Russia's New Politics: The Management of a Postcommunist Society, 2000, Cambridge University Press, (hardcover) (paperback)
• (with Rick Fawn) Russia After Communism, Psychology Press, 2002,
• Communism and Its Collapse, 2002, Routhledge,
• The Origins of Detente: The Genoa Conference and Soviet-Western Relations, 1921-1922, 2002, Cambridge University Press,
• Understanding Russian Politics, 2011, Cambridge University Press, ("expands and replaces" Russia's New Politics, 2000)
• (with Valentina Feklyunina) Identities and Foreign Policies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: The Other Europes, Springer, 2014,

Edited collections

• Developments in Soviet Politics, bookseries
• Developments in Russian Politics, book series (9th edition, 2018)
• Developments in Central and East European Politics, book series
• Media, Culture and Society in Putin's Russia (2008,)
• Politics and the Ruling Group in Putin's Russia (2008)
• Handbook of Reconstruction in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (1991,

Notes and References

1. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/author/stephen-leonard-white Stephen Leonard White
2. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/stephenwhite/ "Professor Stephen White"
3. http://www.worldwhoswho.com/public/views/entry.html?id=sl2177613 WHITE Stephen
4. https://books.google.com/books/about/Political_Culture_and_Soviet_Politics.html?id=9_WuQgAACAAJ About the author
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=DG9qjN-Q3wgC About the author
6. https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/stephen-white/ Professor Stephen Leonard White FBA FRSE
7. https://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-stephen-white Professor Stephen White