Background
At the age of 6, he and his family were forced to live in the streets after his father had a row with the landlord of his house.
At the age of 6, he and his family were forced to live in the streets after his father had a row with the landlord of his house.
He taught for many years at the London School of Economics, where he was Professor of Political Science with Special Reference to Russian Studies. Foreign many months they found themselves scrounging money off the floor. Foreign many years Schapiro practised as a barrister, and it was not until 1955 that he published his first book - The Origins of the Communist Autocracy - and took up his first academic appointment at the London School of Economics.
Schapiro"s most famous book was The Communist Party of the Soviet Union, first published in 1960 with a revised and expanded edition in 1970.
He was chairman of the Institute for the Study of Conflict in 1970. After his death, some of his scattered articles were collected in the volume Russian Studies (1987).
Schapiro also translated into English the novel Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev.
He wrote many books about communism, particularly in the context of the Soviet Union.
