Dominic Lieven
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Dominic Lieven is Professor of Russian Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Fellow of the British Academyand of Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...

. He is the elder brother of Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven
Peter Paul Anatol Lieven is a British author, journalist, and policy analyst. He is presently a Senior Researcher at the New America Foundation, where he focuses on US global strategy and the War on Terrorism, Associated Scholar of the Transnational Crisis Project, Chair of International...

, and a brother of Elena Lieven
Elena Lieven
Elena Lieven is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig...

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Russian Government and Empire

Dominic Lieven graduated first in the class of 1973 in history from Cambridge University and was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard in 1973/4.
Lieven is seen as a world-authority on Russian history and post-Soviet politics; and on empire and European history. Notably in the areas of comparative imperial history; problems of political stability on the European periphery 1860-1939, and Russia's confrontation with Napoleon 1807-14.

Key Publications

His main works include:
  • 1983 Russia and the Origins of the First World War, Macmillan.
  • 1989 Russia's Rulers under the Old Regime, Yale U.P.
  • 1992 The Aristocracy in Europe 1815/1914, Macmillan/Columbia UP.
  • 1993 Nicholas II, John Murray/St Martin's Press.
  • 2000 Empire. The Russian Empire and its Rivals, John Murray/Yale U.P.
  • 2009 Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814

See also

  • Elena Lieven
    Elena Lieven
    Elena Lieven is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig...

  • Anatol Lieven
    Anatol Lieven
    Peter Paul Anatol Lieven is a British author, journalist, and policy analyst. He is presently a Senior Researcher at the New America Foundation, where he focuses on US global strategy and the War on Terrorism, Associated Scholar of the Transnational Crisis Project, Chair of International...

  • Dorothea Lieven
    Dorothea Lieven
    HSH Princess Dorothea von Lieven , née Benckendorff , a Baltic German noblewoman and wife of Prince Khristofor Andreyevich Lieven, Russian ambassador to London, 1812 to 1834, was a political force in her own right....

  • Christopher Lieven


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