Faculty teaching in Russian and East European Studies

Beryl Williams

Beryl Williams is Emeritus Reader in History.

She taught at Sussex from 1963, was director of graduates in Russian and East European Studies, and was awarded a prize for excellence in teaching.

Her main interests are:

• Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Russian history
• Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Chinese history
• Diplomatic history
• Women in post-Petrine Russian history
• Comparative revolutions across the post-communist world

Beryl has been visiting professor in universities in Canada and China.

Recent publications include:

'The Russian Revolutions of 1917' in Modern History Review Nov. 1999

Lenin (Longman. Profiles in Power) 1999 pp 232

"The Impact of the French Revolutionary Tradition on the Propaganda of the Russian Revolution" in ed. I.Germani and R.Swales, Symbols, Myths and Images of the French Revolution. Essays in Honour of James A Leith, University of Regina Press 1998

"Soviet Historians and the Rediscovery of the Soviet Past" in ed. W. Lamont, Historical Controversies and Historians UCL Press, 1998

The Russian Revolution 1917-1921 (Basil Blackwell 1987, updated 1995)

Beryl has also produced a number of videos for academic use:

i. The Russian Revolution of 1917

ii.. Stalin`s Russia.

iii.. Late Imperial Russia .