Ronald Hingley
Dr Ronald Francis Hingley (26 April 1920, Edinburgh – 23 January 2010) was an English scholar, translator and historian of Russia, specializing in Russian history and literature.
Hingley was the translator and editor of the nine-volume collection of Chekhov's works published by Oxford University Press between 1974 and 1980 (known as the Oxford Chekhov).[1] 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 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)
- Russian Revolution (Bodley Head Contemporary History) (Oct 22, 1970)
- The Tsars, Russian Autocrats, 1533-1917 (1968)
- Czars (1973)
