Ronald Francis Hingley (26 April 1920, in
Edinburgh – 23 January 2010) was an English scholar, translator and historian of Russia, specializing in Russian history and literature.
He was a governing body fellow of
St Antony's College, Oxford, from 1961 to 1987 and an emeritus fellow from 1987 onwards.
Selected works
A Concise History of Russia (1972)
Russia : A Concise History (1991)
A Life of Chekhov (Oxford Lives) (1989)
A New Life of Anton Chekhov (1976)
Pasternak (1983)
Dostoyevsky, his life and work (1978)
Joseph Stalin: Man and Legend (Leaders of Our Time) (1974)
The Undiscovered Dostoyevsky (1962)
Nightingale fever: Russian poets in revolution (1981)
Russian Writers and Society in the Nineteenth Century (1977)
Russian Writers and Soviet Society, 1917-1978 (1979)
The Russian Secret Police: Muscovite, Imperial Russian and Soviet Political Security Operations (1970)
A People in Turmoil: Revolutions in Russia (1973)
The Russian Mind (May 25, 1978) - "An extensive, anecdotal exploration of the Russian mind and character portrays salient behavior traits and attitudes and examines characteristic social and cultural phenomena."[2][3]
Russian Revolution (Bodley Head Contemporary History) (Oct 22, 1970)