Dominic Lieven
Dominic Lieven (born January 19, 1952) is a research professor at Cambridge University (Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College) and a Fellow of the British Academy[1][2] and of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dominic Lieven is the second son and third child (of five children) of Alexander Lieven (of the Baltic German princely family, tracing ancestry to Liv chieftain Kaupo) by his first wife, Irishwoman, Veronica Monahan (d. 1979).[1]He is the elder brother of Anatol Lieven and Nathalie Lieven QC, and a brother of Elena Lieven and distantly related to the Christopher Lieven (1774–1839), Ambassador to the Court of St James 1812–1834, whose wife was Dorothea von Benckendorff, later Princess Lieven (1785–1857), a notable society hostess.
Education
Lieven was educated at Downside School, a Benedictine Roman Catholic boarding independent school in Stratton-on-the-Fosse, near Shepton Mallet in Somerset, in South West England, followed by Christ's College at the University of Cambridge, where he gained a First in History in the class of 1973, and was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University in 1973/4.
Russian Government and Empire
Lieven is a writer on Russian history and post-Soviet politics and on Empire and European history, notably in the areas of comparative imperial history, problems of political stability on the European periphery from 1860-1939 and Russia's confrontation with Napoleon from 1807-14.[3]
Publications
His main works include:
- Russia and the Origins of the First World War, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1983).
- Russia's Rulers under the Old Regime, Yale U.P (1989).
- The Aristocracy in Europe 1815/1914, Macmillan/Columbia UP (1992).
- Nicholas II, John Murray/St Martin's Press (1993).
- Empire. The Russian Empire and its Rivals, John Murray/Yale U.P (2003).
- Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814. (2009)[4][5]
- Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia, Allen Lane, 448 pages (May 2015).
See also
References
- ^ LSE Research and Expertise
- ^ Harvard University
- ^ Academia Rossica
- ^ The Bear Against The Cockrel, Charles Esdaile, 2009, published in the Literary Review
- ^ ‘War and Peace’: The Fact-Check, Mark Mazower, 2010, published in the New York Times
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- 1952 births
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- Academics of the London School of Economics
- Baltic-German people
- British political scientists
- Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
- People educated at Downside School
- English people of Russian descent
- Historians of Russia
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Kennedy scholars