S A SmithS. A. Smith is a historian of modern Russia and China, who was a graduate student at both Moscow State University and at Peking University. He is the author of many books and articles on the Russian and Chinese revolutions, including Red Petrograd: Rvolution in the Factories, 1917-18 and Revolution and the People in Russia and China: A Comparative History, and is editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism. He taught for many years at the University of Essex, where he is an emeritus professor, and then at the European University Institute in Florence, before being elected to a senior research fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, in 2012. Read More Read Less