Background
Williams, Robert Chadwell was born on October 14, 1938 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Charles Reagan and Dorothy (Chadwell) Williams.
(These interdisciplinary essays in Russian and Western cul...)
These interdisciplinary essays in Russian and Western cultural and intellectual history shed light on the migration of people, politics, art, and ideas between Russia, Europe, and the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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(The Other Bolsheviks, focuses on the thought and activiti...)
The Other Bolsheviks, focuses on the thought and activities of A.A. Bogdanov, A.V. Lunacharsky, Maxim Gorky, and V.D. Bonch-Bruevich, this political and intellectual history of Bolshevism before 1914 shows that Lenin by no means dominated or controlled his own fraction of the Russian Social Democratic Worker's Party, as his famous essay 'What Is to Be Done?' (1902) implies.
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(An interpretative history of the Russian Empire from 1700...)
An interpretative history of the Russian Empire from 1700 to 1917, in the larger Eurasian context of the Mongols, Muscany and the Soviet Union. It explains how a westernizing oligarchy tried to transform an enigma of clan societies into modern nation states, and it includes original documents.
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( From his arrival in New York City in 1831 as a young pr...)
From his arrival in New York City in 1831 as a young printer from New Hampshire to his death in 1872 after losing the presidential election to General Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley (b. 1811) was a quintessential New Yorker. He thrived on the city’s ceaseless energy, with his New York Tribune at the forefront of a national revolution in reporting and transmitting news. Greeley devoured ideas, books, fads, and current events as quickly as he developed his own interests and causes, all of which revolved around the concept of freedom. While he adored his work as a New York editor, Greeley’s lifelong quest for universal freedom took him to the edge of the American frontier and beyond to Europe. A major figure in nineteenth-century American politics and reform movements, Greeley was also a key actor in a worldwide debate about the meaning of freedom that involved progressive thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Karl Marx. Greeley was first and foremost an ardent nationalist who devoted his life to ensuring that America live up to its promises of liberty and freedom for all of its members. Robert C. Williams places Greeley’s relentless political ambitions, bold reform agenda, and complex personal life into the broader context of freedom. Horace Greeley is as rigorous and vast as Greeley himself, and as America itself in the long nineteenth century. In the first comprehensive biography of Greeley to be published in nearly half a century, Williams captures Greeley from all sides: editor, reformer, political candidate, eccentric, and trans-Atlantic public intellectual; examining headlining news issues of the day, including slavery, westward expansion, European revolutions, the Civil War, the demise of the Whig and the birth of the Republican parties, transcendentalism, and other intellectual currents of the era.
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Williams, Robert Chadwell was born on October 14, 1938 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Charles Reagan and Dorothy (Chadwell) Williams.
Bachelor of Arts, Wesleyan University, 1960; A.M., Harvard University, 1962; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1966.
Assistant professor history Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1965-1970. Professor history Washington University, St. Louis, 1970-1986. Dean of faculty, professor history Davidson College, North Carolina, 1986-1998, Vail professor history, 2000—2003.
President Central Slavic Conference, 1971-1972. Vice president History Associates Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, since 1980. Senior research associate St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1985.
(These interdisciplinary essays in Russian and Western cul...)
(These interdisciplinary essays in Russian and Western cul...)
( From his arrival in New York City in 1831 as a young pr...)
(An interpretative history of the Russian Empire from 1700...)
(Detailed study of the 1950 espionage case of Klaus Fuchs,...)
(The Other Bolsheviks, focuses on the thought and activiti...)
(Book by Williams, Robert Chadwell)
(Book by Williams, Robert C.)
(Book by Robert C. Williams)
Trustee Wesleyan University, 1996-1999, Agnes Scott College, since 2003. Member American Association for Advancement of Slavic Studies, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Ann Bennett Kingman, August 27, 1960. Children: Peter, Margaret, Katharine.