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Ian D. Thatcher | |
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| Institutions | Ulster University, University of Glasgow, University of Auckland, University of Leicester, Brunel University |
Main interests | Russian history, Soviet history, Russian Revolution, History of social democracy in Russia |
Ian D. Thatcher is a scholar of Russia and a Professor at Ulster University. He co-founded Journal of Trotsky Studies and Studies in Marxism and served on the editorial boards of Europe-Asia Studies and Scottish Slavonic Review. He is a editorial board member of Revolutionary Russia and a Series Editor of The Bloomsbury Modern Russian History Series.
Thatcher developed an interest in the Russian Revolution and Soviet history in O-Level history because Middlesbrough was "suffering from the newly elected and much hated in my area Thatcher government." Trotsky stood out to him as "a Bolshevik who still believed in socialism even though the regime in Russia had exiled him."
At the University of Glasgow he collaborated with Alec Nove, a Professor of Economics and an authority on Russian and Soviet economic history. After Nove's death, Thatcher said "[T]he consensus is that he was one of the most significant scholars of 'Soviet' studies in its widest sense and beyond."
