Stephen White (political scientist)

For American political scientist, see Stephen K. White.

Stephen Leonard White (1 July 1945 – 15 November 2023) was a British political scientist and historian, emeritus professor at University of Glasgow.^[1][2][3][4] He wrote many articles and books about the politics of the Soviet Union and Russia.^[5][4]

Life

Stephen White was born in Dublin.^[6] He 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. He took a DPhil in politics at Wolfson College, Oxford.^[3] White was awarded the Marshall Scholarship.

His positions included 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,^[3] and adjunct professor of European Studies at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center.^[7]

From 2002 he was Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.^[8] In 2010 he became a Fellow of the British Academy, Section S5 Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and International Relations.^[3][9]

Until 2011 he was a co-editor of The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.^[4] He died in Glasgow.

Books

• The USSR: Portrait of a Superpower, 1978, ISBN 9780216904859
• Political Culture and Soviet Politics, 1979, Macmillan, ISBN 0333241576
• Britain and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Study in the Politics of Diplomacy, 1920-1924, Holmes & Meier Publishers, Incorporated, 1980, ISBN 0841905134
• (with Daniel Nelson) Communist Legislatures in Comparative Perspective, SUNY Press, 1982, ISBN 0873955676
• (with John Gardner, George Schöpflin) Communist Political Systems: An Introduction, ISBN 0333323009 1982, 1984
• Gorbachev in Power, 1990, ISBN 0521397235
• After Gorbachev, 1993, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 052145896X
• (with Graeme Gill, Darrell Slider) The Politics of Transition: Shaping a Post-Soviet Future, 1993, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521446341
• Russia Goes Dry: Alcohol, State and Society, Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 0521558492
• (with Richard Rose, Ian McAllister) How Russia Votes, Chatham House Publishers, 1997, ISBN 1566430372
• (with Evan Mawdsley) The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: The Central Committee and Its Members 1917-1991, 2000, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198297386
• Russia's New Politics: The Management of a Postcommunist Society, 2000, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521583195 (hardcover) ISBN 0521587379 (paperback)
• (with Rick Fawn) Russia After Communism, Psychology Press, 2002, ISBN 0714652938
• Communism and Its Collapse, 2002, Routhledge, ISBN 1134694237
• The Origins of Detente: The Genoa Conference and Soviet-Western Relations, 1921-1922, 2002, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521526175
• Understanding Russian Politics, 2011, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 1139496832 ("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, ISBN 1137453117

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, ISBN 0230524850)
• Politics and the Ruling Group in Putin's Russia (2008)
• Handbook of Reconstruction in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (1991, ISBN 0582085020