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By birth A–Z List Cards

W. E. B. Du Bois W. E. B. Du Bois "Capitalism cannot reform itself": father of the modern Negro liberation movement who joined the Communist Party at 93 Scholarship and theory · Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1868–1963
George F. Kennan George F. Kennan The American diplomat and historian whose 1946 Long Telegram and X article laid the intellectual foundations of containment Scholarship and theory 1904–2005
Arthur M. Schlesinger Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. A liberal historian who became an insider chronicler of power Scholarship and theory 1917–2007
Gabriel Jackson Gabriel Jackson An American historian who interpreted the Spanish Republic and Civil War Scholarship and theory 1921–2019
Martin Edward Malia Martin Edward Malia A historian who forecast the Soviet collapse Scholarship and theory 1924–2004
Stuart Schram Stuart R. Schram Pioneer of Mao studies, author of The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung and editor of the ten-volume Mao’s Road to Power Scholarship and theory 1924–2012
Robert Vincent Daniels Robert Vincent Daniels A historian who traced revolutionary pluralism and the making of Stalinism Scholarship and theory 1926–2010
Vladimir Treml Vladimir Treml A scholar who quantified the Soviet economy's hidden flows Scholarship and theory 1929–2018
Maurice Meisner Maurice Meisner Historian whose Mao’s China and After judged the Chinese revolution critically from within the Marxist tradition Scholarship and theory 1931–2012
Robert Owen Paxton Robert Owen Paxton The historian who recast Vichy collaboration Scholarship and theory 1932–
Theodore Merrill Vestal Theodore Vestal U.S. political scientist and Ethiopia specialist Scholarship and theory 1933–2023
Alexander Yevgenyevich Rabinowitch Alexander Evgen'evich Rabinowitch The revisionist historian who overturned the Cold War coup thesis with archival evidence Scholarship and theory 1934–2026
Stanley G. Payne Stanley G. Payne America's most prominent historian arguing the Second Republic's radicalization brought on the Spanish Civil War Scholarship and theory 1934–
Ronald Radosh Ronald Radosh A historian whose break with communism led to conservative anti-communism Scholarship and theory 1937–
Stephen F. Frand Cohen Stephen F. Cohen American Russia scholar who argued through Bukharin's biography that the Soviet Union had reformable alternatives and collapse was avoidable Scholarship and theory 1938–2020
Graham Allison Graham Allison Political scientist whose analysis of the Cuban Missile Crisis reshaped the study of foreign-policy decision-making Scholarship and theory 1940–
John Lewis Gaddis John Lewis Gaddis The post-revisionist historian who, after the Soviet archives opened, argued Stalin bore primary responsibility for the Cold War Scholarship and theory 1941–
Paul R. Gregory Paul R. Gregory An economic historian who traced the bureaucracy of Soviet planning Scholarship and theory 1941–
William Chase Taubman William Chase Taubman A biographer who reshaped the study of Soviet leadership Scholarship and theory 1941–
Bruce Cumings Bruce Cumings The revisionist historian who recast the Korean War as fundamentally a civil war Scholarship and theory 1943–
Angela Davis Angela Davis Marxist feminist philosopher who theorised the prison-industrial complex, co-founder of Critical Resistance Scholarship and theory · Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1944–
William Whitney Stueck William Stueck The US diplomatic historian who reframed the Korean War as a substitute for World War III and led the post-revisionist challenge to Cumings Scholarship and theory 1945–
Amy Knight Amy Knight The American historian whose Beria biography revealed the paradox of Stalin's executioner as unlikely reformer Scholarship and theory 1946–
David Kotz David M. Kotz A political economist of Soviet system change Scholarship and theory 1946–
Richard B. Frank Richard B. Frank An archival military historian of the Pacific War Scholarship and theory 1947–
Robert C. Allen Robert C. Allen The Oxford economic historian who reassessed Soviet industrialization as one of the most successful development stories of the 20th century Scholarship and theory 1947–
Jonathan Brent Jonathan Brent American historian and publisher who documented Stalin's last conspiracy Scholarship and theory 1949–
J. Arch Getty J. Arch Getty A revisionist historian of Soviet political history Scholarship and theory 1950–2025
Barry Eichengreen Barry Eichengreen An economist who reads international monetary order through history Scholarship and theory 1952–
Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama The scholar who read 1989 as liberal democracy's endpoint Scholarship and theory 1952–
Mark N. Katz Mark N. Katz A scholar who reread war after withdrawal Scholarship and theory 1954–
Mark R. Beissinger Mark R. Beissinger Political scientist who argued the Soviet collapse was produced by the event-driven tide of nationalism, not structural inevitability Scholarship and theory 1954–
Edward W. Walker Edward W. Walker A political scientist who analyzed Soviet dissolution through the paradoxes of federalism Scholarship and theory 1955–
Rafael Reuveny Rafael Reuveny Israeli-born political economist who established the causal-mechanism framework linking the Soviet-Afghan war to the USSR's collapse Scholarship and theory 1957–
Stephen Mark Kotkin Stephen Mark Kotkin The structural analyst of the Soviet collapse who argued the system was not dying Scholarship and theory 1959–
Hope M. Harrison Hope M. Harrison A Cold War historian who recast the Berlin Wall's origins Scholarship and theory 1963–
Terry Martin Terry Martin The historian who redefined the USSR as an 'affirmative action empire' rather than a 'prison of nations' Scholarship and theory 1963–
Anne Applebaum Anne Applebaum A historian of Soviet and Eastern European memory Scholarship and theory 1964–
Kate Brown Kate Brown Environmental historian who traced Chernobyl's concealed death toll Scholarship and theory 1965–
Daniel Kowalsky Daniel Kowalsky American historian who reassessed Soviet intervention in the Spanish Civil War using declassified archives Scholarship and theory 1966–
Francine Hirsch Francine Hirsch American historian who argued the USSR continued the imperial ethnographic practices of the tsarist state Scholarship and theory 1967–
David Brandenberger David Brandenberger The American Soviet historian who mapped the three schools of Leningrad Affair historiography Scholarship and theory 1970–
Kristen Ghodsee Kristen Ghodsee An ethnographer of the social costs of the post-1989 transition Scholarship and theory 1970–
James Heinzen James Heinzen A historian who anatomized the Soviet countryside state Scholarship and theory ?–
Jennifer Frost Jennifer Frost A US historian who redefined the question of how the Space Race should be measured Scholarship and theory ?–
Mark Kramer Mark Kramer A historian who decoded the Cold War archives Scholarship and theory ?–