Stephen White

Stephen Leonard White (1 July 1945 – 15 November 2023) was a British political scientist and historian, emeritus professor at University of Glasgow. He wrote many articles and books about the politics of the Soviet Union and Russia. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1967 with a BA in Politics and Modern History, and completed a PhD in Soviet studies at University of Glasgow in 1973, having spent a year at Moscow State University as an exchange student. He later took a DPhil in politics at Wolfson College, Oxford (awarded in 1987). White was awarded the Marshall Scholarship.

His positions included James Bryce Professor of Politics, a Senior Research Associate of the School of Central and East European Studies at University of Glasgow, a visiting professor at the Institute of Applied Politics in Moscow,

From 2002 he was Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2010 he became a Fellow of the British Academy, Section S5 Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and International Relations.

Until 2011 he was a co-editor of The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics. He died in Glasgow.

Books The USSR: Portrait of a Superpower, 1978, Political Culture and Soviet Politics, 1979, Macmillan, Britain and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Study in the Politics of Diplomacy, 1920-1924, Holmes & Meier Publishers, Incorporated, 1980, (with Daniel Nelson) Communist Legislatures in Comparative Perspective, SUNY Press, 1982, (with John Gardner, George Schöpflin) Communist Political Systems: An Introduction, 1982, 1984 Gorbachev in Power, 1990, After Gorbachev, 1993, Cambridge University Press, (with Graeme Gill, Darrell Slider) The Politics of Transition: Shaping a Post-Soviet Future, 1993, Cambridge University Press, Russia Goes Dry: Alcohol, State and Society, Cambridge University Press, 1996, (with Richard Rose, Ian McAllister) How Russia Votes, Chatham House Publishers, 1997, (with Evan Mawdsley) The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: The Central Committee and Its Members 1917-1991, 2000, Oxford University Press, Russia's New Politics: The Management of a Postcommunist Society, 2000, Cambridge University Press, (hardcover) (paperback) (with Rick Fawn) Russia After Communism, Psychology Press, 2002, Communism and Its Collapse, 2002, Routhledge, The Origins of Detente: The Genoa Conference and Soviet-Western Relations, 1921-1922, 2002, Cambridge University Press, Understanding Russian Politics, 2011, Cambridge University Press, ("expands and replaces" Russia's New Politics, 2000) (with Valentina Feklyunina) Identities and Foreign Policies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: The Other Europes, Springer, 2014,

Edited collections Developments in Soviet Politics, bookseries Developments in Russian Politics, book series (9th edition, 2018) Developments in Central and East European Politics, book series Media, Culture and Society in Putin's Russia (2008, ) Politics and the Ruling Group in Putin's Russia (2008) Handbook of Reconstruction in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (1991,