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Ronald Hingley


Born
in Edinburgh, Scotland, The United Kingdom
April 26, 1920

Genre
History, Biography


Dr. Ronald Francis Hingley (1920-2010) was a scholar, translator and historian of Russia, specializing in Russian history and literature.

Hingley was editor of the nine-volume collection of Chekhov's works published by Oxford University Press between 1974 and 1980. He also wrote numerous books including biographies of Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Stalin and Boris Pasternak. He won the James Tait Black Award for his 1976 biography A New Life of Anton Chekhov . He also translated several works of Russian literature, among them Alexander Solzhenitsyn's classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich which Hingley co-translated with Max Hayward.

He was a Governing Body Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford from 1961 to 1987 and an Emeritus Fellow ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 107,926 ratings · 4,963 reviews · 63 distinct works • Similar authors
Russia : A Concise History
3.50 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1972 — 5 editions
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Dostoyevsky: His life and work
4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — 7 editions
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Russian Writers and Society...
3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1967 — 18 editions
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Czars
3.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1968 — 2 editions
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Joseph Stalin Man and Legend
3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions
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The Russian Secret Police: ...
4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1970 — 12 editions
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Nightingale fever: Russian ...
3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions
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A New Life of Anton Chekhov
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1976 — 5 editions
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Nihilists; Russian Radicals...
2.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1967 — 9 editions
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The Russian Mind
3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1977 — 7 editions
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