Stephen A Smith
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3596377 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephen A Smith |
| NOMBRES | Stephen A |
| APELLIDO | Smith |
| FIRMA | SMITH S A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1067-0801 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 20 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Becoming Horse in the Duration of the Moment
This article reflects on Stephen Smith’s influential 2011 phenomenological paper, Becoming Horse in the Duration of the Moment: The Trainer’s Challenge, through a retrospective dialogue between Smith and co-editor Andrew Foran for this Special Issue of Phenomenology & Practice. The discussion traces Foran’s initial skepticism toward the manuscript and the subsequent shift in understanding prompted by peer review and deeper engagement. Becoming Ho…
Remembering my friend, Professor Dale Herbeck
Are Tort Remedies ‘Civil Recourse’
Penser les cultures des classes populaires au prisme de l’histoire sociale des communismes
Dans cet entretien, Stephen Anthony Smith, historien des communismes et ancien éditeur de la revue Past and Present, évoque tant les origines de son parcours intellectuel que l’évolution de ses approches et objets dans l’appréhension des mondes ouvrier et paysan soviétique et chinois. En s’interrogeant sur les héritages du marxisme et plus particulièrement sur ses voies de redéfinition, ses réappropriations, ses usages et ses emprunts, il revient…
Taking tort seriously
In Recognizing Wrongs, John Goldberg and Benjamin Zipursky argue that tort law is just what ‘it looks to be’ – and that what it looks to be is a law of wrongs and recourse. It is not necessary, in their view, to turn to economics, sociology, philosophy, or any other discipline to understand tort law: it is sufficient to take seriously judges’ reasons for why they decide tort cases as they do. In advancing this argument, Goldberg and Zipursky seek…
The voice of the past
The first edition of Voice of the Past (1978) soon became the ‘go to’ text for the young field of oral history. Despite the natural limits to any attempt to survey oral history at that time and Tho
Interview with S. A. Smith
S. A. Smith is Professor of History at the University of Oxford. He is one of the leading scholars of the social and cultural history of the Russian Revolution and his book Red Petrograd: Revolutio
Weekend Surgical Care and Postoperative Mortality
BACKGROUND: An association between weekend health care delivery and poor outcomes has become known as the "weekend effect." Evidence for such an association among surgery patients has not previously been synthesized. OBJECTIVE: To systematically review associations between weekend surgical care and postoperative mortality. METHODS: We searched PubMed, EMBASE, and references of relevant articles for studies that compared postoperative mortality ei…
The Cambridge History of Communism
The first volume of The Cambridge History of Communism deals with the tumultuous events from 1917 to the Second World War, such as the Russian Revolution and Civil War, the revolutionary turmoil in post-World War I Europe, and the Spanish Civil War. Leading experts analyse the ideological roots of communism, historical personalities such as Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky and the development of the Communist movement on a world scale against this back…
Keeping Hope Alive
Lindsley Armstrong Smith, Stephen A. Smith, Keeping Hope Alive: A Case Study of the Continuing Argument for Ratification of the ERA, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 38, No. 2, ERA (2017), pp. 173-207
Contentious Heritage
Writing of Chinese temples in 2000, Vincent Goossaert commented: ‘From 1898 until today there has unfolded a century of continuous destruction, destruction by every means, which will remain as one of the greatest annihilations of a patrimony in human history’. 2 It is true that there were few more alarming instances in the twentieth century of governments waging war on their built heritage than the destruction of temples and other ancient monumen…
Communism and the Artistic Intelligentsia
This article is an effort at comparative history: it treats the intelligentsia in the Soviet Union along with the zhishi fenzi (literally, ‘knowledgeable elements’) in the People’s Republic of China. Starting from a discussion of these terms and ways in which they differ from the Western notion of intellectuals, the article then focuses on the creative work of artists under the two communist regimes. Looking also at the daily conditions, in which…
Religion under Communism
Lenin began and Stalin completed the organizational structures and the repertoire of strategies and tactics that would be used as a model by almost all subsequent communist movements for suppressing religion. This model was primarily constructed to overcome the challenges posed to the revolution by a powerful Russian Orthodox Church. As such it did not fit the religious circumstances of other communist countries. It was poorly adapted to the dece…
Workers under Communism
This essay compares the experience of workers and workplace politics under communism in the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, China, and Vietnam. State–labour relations in these contexts were fraught with tension from the start. Workers’ experience varied widely over time and space. Nevertheless, all workers were subject to state-imposed forms of domination at the workplace and in society at large. This domination was the effect of a powerful i…
Lenin and Bolshevism
The strategy of European Social Democracy, as embodied in the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and set forth in the canonical writings of Karl Kautsky, was based on the aggressive use of political freedom to carry out large-scale propaganda campaigns. Lenin aimed at implanting this strategy into the uncongenial soil of Russian absolutism, which gave rise to his organizational ideas for the Social Democratic underground. After the 1905 revolut…
Communism in Africa
Communism in Africa can be analyzed along two dimensions: Communist movements that generally developed between the two world wars and were subjected to state repression and communism as a post-colonial state policy. During the colonial era communists built alliances with democratic and anti-colonial movements; any success reflected their ability to forge links with trade unions and nationalist organizations. Following independence, many new state…
Communist Revolution and Political Terror
The convergence of terror and revolution has been noted from the time of the French and Russian revolutions. This article lays out the ways in which the concept of extreme political violence in communist revolution from Russia to Cambodia continues to be both politicized and resistant to agreement about such basics as definition, scale, and numbers of victims. There is particular disagreement about whether to count as victims of terror those who …
Communism in South East Asia
In South East Asia the Marxist message came primarily to address issues of nation-building. The article traces the development of communist parties from their early diasporic networks and engagement with the Comintern, to their relations with the colonial powers, to the establishment of communist-ruled states after the Second World War, through to the Cold War and US efforts to contain communism. The article looks at the various forms that commun…
Popular Culture
Immediately following the Second World War, Eastern European communist parties employed censorship against Western popular culture, such as film and popular music, which they regarded as politically inappropriate. From the late 1950s, most parties increasingly sought to satisfy their citizens’ desires for consumption and entertainment, and they promoted the development of local cultural alternatives. The parties were not uniform in their policies…
Communism and Women
This article discusses women and gender relations under communism, beginning in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, continuing through the Cold War era in Eastern Europe, and including Cuba and China today. It addresses communist gender theory, ideology, and discourse. Women’s role in politics and government is discussed. The article covers employment and education, the peasant and urban family, social policies, and socialist consumption. Under commun…
The Cult of Personality and Symbolic Politics
The article discusses characteristics and relevance of leader cults and symbolic politics within state socialism. After defining distinctive features of modern personality cults, the article traces trajectories of major cults over time and highlights interconnections, similarities, and differences between them. Cults served to centre emotions and loyalties in a personalized symbol and were part of a wider cosmos of symbolic politics, which played…
Mao and Maoism
Mao Zedong played a central role in leading the largest communist revolution in the world outside the Soviet Union and in the ‘creative developments’ or ‘Sinification’ of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy to suit Chinese conditions. He combined the roles of Lenin and Stalin. The essay traces his rise to power in the Chinese Communist Party between the 1920s and 1949 and his career as leader of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to 1976, looking at…
Rural Life
Everyday life under communism was predominantly rural, and most rural people living under communism were Chinese. This chapter examines rural work, including collective land arrangements, varying types of compensation, and creative survival strategies. It also focuses on the central roles of family and sex in the communist countryside. It concludes by assessing how technology, from tractors to electricity to irrigation, transformed villages. Cent…
The Comintern
The essay falls into two sections. The first examines the history of the Third International (Comintern) from its creation in 1919 to its dissolution in 1943, looking at the imposition of the Twenty-One Conditions on parties wishing to join the new International in 1920, the move from a perspective of splitting the labour movement to one of a united front in the early 1920s, the shift to the sectarian ‘third period’ strategy in 1928, and the grad…
Communism in Latin America
Latin America’s communist parties were shaped by the Soviet Union’s political priorities up to 1945. This sparked debate with those that emphasized the specificity of Latin American conditions, notably the Peruvian Marxist Mariátegui. The Cuban Revolution of 1959 launched a new continental strategy, based on the guerrilla warfare strategies advocated by Che Guevara. By the late 1960s, these had failed. The election of Salvador Allende to the Chil…
Britain's Shadow Economy
Journal Article Britain's Shadow Economy Get access Britain's Shadow Economy. By STEPHEN SMITH. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, for the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 1986. Pp. xii + 203. à £19.50 hardback.) Bruno S. Frey Bruno S. Frey University of Zurich Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 97, Issue 387, 1 September 1987, Pages 771–772, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232949 Published:…
Like Cattle and Horses
The voice of the past
The first edition of Voice of the Past (1978) soon became the ‘go to’ text for the young field of oral history. Despite the natural limits to any attempt to survey oral history at that time and Tho
Citizenship and the Russian Nation during World War I
Historians of late imperial Russia have been categorical in asserting that Russian peasants lacked any form of national identity. Scholars as diverse as Orlando Figes, Geoffrey Hosking, John Keep, Bruce Lincoln, Richard Pipes, Robert Service, Ronald Suny, and Allan Wildman have agreed that Russian peasants were too rooted inGemeinschaft,too particularistic in their social identities, to be capable of identifying with the polity and territory of R…
Workers and Supervisors
No abstract available.
Contentious Heritage
Writing of Chinese temples in 2000, Vincent Goossaert commented: ‘From 1898 until today there has unfolded a century of continuous destruction, destruction by every means, which will remain as one of the greatest annihilations of a patrimony in human history’. 2 It is true that there were few more alarming instances in the twentieth century of governments waging war on their built heritage than the destruction of temples and other ancient monumen…
Moral Economy' and Peasant Revolution in Russia
Year One in Petrograd
Steve Smith on Alexander Rabinowitch, The Bolsheviks in Power. The tumultuous first year of Soviet rule in Petrograd, meticulously rendered by a major revisionist historian
Performance, Punishment and the Nature of Contractual Obligation
Future Freedom and Freedom of Contract
The Old South Myth as a Contemporary Southern Commodity
The Old South Myth as a Contemporary Southern Commodity
Red Petrograd
This book explores the impact of the 1917 Revolution on factory life in the Russian capital. It traces the attempts of workers to take control of their working lives from the February Revolution through to June 1918, when the Bolsheviks nationalised industry. Although not primarily concerned with the political developments of the Revolution, the book demonstrates that the sphere of industrial production was a crucial arena of political as well as…
Myth, Media, and the Southern Mind
Britain's Shadow Economy
Journal Article Britain's Shadow Economy Get access Britain's Shadow Economy. By STEPHEN SMITH. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, for the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 1986. Pp. xii + 203. à £19.50 hardback.) Bruno S. Frey Bruno S. Frey University of Zurich Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 97, Issue 387, 1 September 1987, Pages 771–772, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232949 Published:…
Freedom of Expression in Native American Constitutions
Humor as Rhetoric and Cultural Argument
Workers and Supervisors
No abstract available.
The South for New Southerners
The South often seems like a foreign country to newcomers from other parts of the United States. And for people from other countries, Southern customs and lifestyle can be even more bewildering. For anyone who has ever wondered why the style of conducting busines in the South is different or why some Southerners are still fighting the Civil War, this book will be a valuable guide. The informative and entertaining essays will help new Southerners …
Future Freedom and Freedom of Contract
Short notices
Owen Ashton, Robert Fyson and Stephen Roberts (eds), The Duty of Discontent: Essays for Dorothy Thompson (1995), 192 (Mansell Publishing, London, £50.00/$90.00). Roger V. Gould, Insurgent Identities: Class, Community, and Protest in Paris from 1848 to the Commune (1995), viii + 253 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, $40.95/£32.75). Susan D. Pennybacker, A Vision for London 1889–1914: Labour, Everyday Life and the LCC Experiment (19…
Performance, Punishment and the Nature of Contractual Obligation
Citizenship and the Russian Nation during World War I
Historians of late imperial Russia have been categorical in asserting that Russian peasants lacked any form of national identity. Scholars as diverse as Orlando Figes, Geoffrey Hosking, John Keep, Bruce Lincoln, Richard Pipes, Robert Service, Ronald Suny, and Allan Wildman have agreed that Russian peasants were too rooted inGemeinschaft,too particularistic in their social identities, to be capable of identifying with the polity and territory of R…
The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution
Like Cattle and Horses
Patriotism, Pledging Allegiance, and Public Schools
THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, first composed in nineteenth century, has once again become a topic of considerable editorial comment and political posturing in twenty-first century, as seventeen states have enacted new pledge laws or amended existing statutes.1 Nonetheless, there is little evidence that many citizens or elected officials are aware of history and consequences of attempts by patriotic organizations, local school districts, and state gov…
Chinese Marxism . Adrian Chan
Talking Toads and Chinless Ghosts
SINCE THE DEATH OF MAO ZEDONG in 1976, there has been an astonishing revival in the People's Republic of China of what the government calls "feudal superstition"; this in spite of the fact that under Mao the regime waged a fierce onslaught against the "four olds"-old thinking, old culture, old customs, and old habits-especially during the Cultural Revolution. The 1980s and 1990s saw a rush to rebuild temples and ancestral halls, the resurgence of…
Birds and marine mammals in southwestern Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada
The southwestern part of Foxe Basin is a little known region of the Canadian Arctic, being difficult to access during the summer because of heavy and unpredictable ice conditions. Surveys of birds and marine mammals in the area were carried out by lightweight expeditions in the summers of 1994 and 1995, using sea-kayaks, as well as a Peterhead boat from the nearest community, at Repulse Bay. The area supports important populations of narwhal, bow…
Electronic Tribes
Whether people want to play games and download music, engage in social networking and professional collaboration, or view pornography and incite terror, the Internet provides myriad opportunities for people who share common interests to find each other. The contributors to this book argue that these self-selected online groups are best understood as tribes, with many of the same ramifications, both positive and negative, that tribalism has in the…
Year One in Petrograd
Steve Smith on Alexander Rabinowitch, The Bolsheviks in Power. The tumultuous first year of Soviet rule in Petrograd, meticulously rendered by a major revisionist historian
Gli anni di Mao
Reflects on how political changes that have taken place in the People's Republic of China (Prc) during the era of economic reform, together with changes that have taken place in the world at large since 1989, especially those following the collapse of Communism in Europe, have shaped the way in which historians inside and outside the Prc have written the history of the Mao era (1949 to 1976). The article examines both Chinese and western historio…
Moral Economy' and Peasant Revolution in Russia
Communism and the Artistic Intelligentsia
This article is an effort at comparative history: it treats the intelligentsia in the Soviet Union along with the zhishi fenzi (literally, ‘knowledgeable elements’) in the People’s Republic of China. Starting from a discussion of these terms and ways in which they differ from the Western notion of intellectuals, the article then focuses on the creative work of artists under the two communist regimes. Looking also at the daily conditions, in which…
Religion under Communism
Lenin began and Stalin completed the organizational structures and the repertoire of strategies and tactics that would be used as a model by almost all subsequent communist movements for suppressing religion. This model was primarily constructed to overcome the challenges posed to the revolution by a powerful Russian Orthodox Church. As such it did not fit the religious circumstances of other communist countries. It was poorly adapted to the dece…
Workers under Communism
This essay compares the experience of workers and workplace politics under communism in the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, China, and Vietnam. State–labour relations in these contexts were fraught with tension from the start. Workers’ experience varied widely over time and space. Nevertheless, all workers were subject to state-imposed forms of domination at the workplace and in society at large. This domination was the effect of a powerful i…
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