Lenin and the Russian Revolution

196 Pages·1982·4.528 MB·English

by  Christopher Hill

Christopher Hill

Pelican Books
Lenin and the Russian Revolution
Christopher Hill was educated at St Peter's School, York,
and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he received a ‘first'
in modern history in 1934. That year he was also made a
fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. In 1936 he was
assistant lecturer in modern history at University College,
Cardiff, and two years later tutor in modem history at
Balliol. During his war service he had a variety of posts:
Field Security Police, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire
Light Infantry, Intelligence Corps and the Foreign Office.
He returned to Oxford in 1945 and from 1958 until 1965
was university lecturer in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century
history. He was Ford Lecturer in English History in 1962.
From 1965-78 he was Master of Balliol College. In 1978 he
became Visiting Professor at the Open University. In 1965
he was made D. Litt., Oxon. Dr Hill, a Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society and of the British Academy, was a
member of the editorial board of Past and Present (1952-68),
and since 1961 of the Yale University Press edition of the
Complete Prose of John Milton. He was made Hon. DXitt.
of Hull in 1966; of Sheffield in 1967; of East Anglia in 1968;
and of Glasgow and Bristol, 1976. His publications include
The English Revolution (1940), Economic Problems of the
Church (1956)» Puritanism and Revolution (1958), The Century
of Revolution (1961), Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary
England (1964)» Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution
(1965), Reformation to Industrial Revolution (1967), which is
Volume 2 in the series The Pelican Economic History of Britain,
God’s Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English
Revolution (1970), Antichrist in 17th Century England (1971),
The World Turned Upside Down (1972), Change and
Continuity in 17th Century England (1974), and Milton and
the English Revolution (1977) which won the Royal Society
of Literature Award. He also contributed to Rebels and
their Causes, a collection of essays to celebrate the seventy-fifth
birthday of A.L. Morton. Dr Hill has travelled in Europe generally,
in Japan and India and in the U.S.A. He is married, with
three children.

Christopher H ill
Lenin and
the Russian Revolution
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First published in the ‘Teach Yourself History’ series by
The English University Press 1947
Published in Pelican Books 1971
Reprinted 1978, 1980, 1982
Copyright © Christopher Hill, 1971
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