<br>Richard Stites was Professor of History and International Affairs at Georgetown University. A groundbreaking historian who opened up new territory with landmark works on the Russian women's movement and on Russian and Soviet mass culture, he also translated and edited a three-volume account of the Russian Revolution by Pavel Miliukov, and was a co-author of the widely used textbook A History of Russia: Peoples, Legends, Events, Forces.<br>
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