S A Smith

Biographic Data

ID5182674
NAMES A Smith
GIVEN NAMESS A
FAMILY NAMESmith
SIGNATURESMITH S A
AFFILIATIONSEuropean University Institute
ORCID0000-0002-0901-3444
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS25
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR25
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1886
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Supernatural Politics

    Open AccessS A Smith, S Jarrell SmithBOOKSupernatural Politics2026

    In this landmark contribution to the study of modern China, Steve Smith examines the paradox of 'supernatural politics'. He shows that we cannot understand the meaning of the Communist revolution to the Han Chinese without exploring their belief in gods, ghosts and ancestors. China was a religious society when the Communist Party took power in 1949, and it sought to erode the influence of the minority religions of Buddhism, Daoism, Catholicism an…

  • Communism in an Enchanted World

    Open AccessS A SmithBOOKCommunism in an Enchanted World2026

    Drawing together decades of research, Steve Smith explores the survival and adaptation of folk beliefs in Mao's China in the face of seismic social change and growing political repression. Bringing an oftenneglected aspect of modern Chinese history to the fore, he shows how folk religion maintained a vital presence in everyday life. In myriad ways, through Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism, spirit mediums and spirit healing, divination, geomancy…

  • Bailey Stone. The Anatomy of Revolution Revisited

    Steve Smith, S A SmithARTICLEThe American Historical Review2015

    Journal Article Bailey Stone. The Anatomy of Revolution Revisited: A Comparative Analysis of England, France, and Russia. Get access Bailey Stone. The Anatomy of Revolution Revisited: A Comparative Analysis of England, France, and Russia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 529. Cloth $99.00, paper $34.99, e-book $28.00. S. A. Smith S. A. Smith All Souls College, University of Oxford [email protected] Search for …

  • Lucien Bianco, La récidive, Révolution russe, révolution chinoise

    S A Smith, Serena SmithARTICLECahiers du monde russe2014

    The title of Lucien Bianco's magnificent study is not easy to translate into English : "The Recurrence" perhaps (as in the recurrence of a disease that has gone into remission) ; or better, "The Repeat Offence" (as in criminal recidivism). Pierre Nora apparently vetoed Bianco's original title : "La repetition," because of its theatrical connotations (it can mean a "rehearsal") ; and "La rplique," a word that can mean an "aftershock" as well as a …

  • Courtiers with a conscience

    S A SmithARTICLEFrench History2013

    Journal Article Courtiers with a conscience: the Lazarists of Versailles and Saint-Cyr, 1674–1704 Get access Sean Alexander Smith Sean Alexander Smith * * Sean Smith recently completed a doctorate on the Lazarists under Louis XIV at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and can be contacted at [email protected]. Thanks go to Dr Alison Forrestal for her advice on this article’s themes. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…

  • Russia and China

    Open AccessSteve Smith, S A SmithARTICLEEuropean Societies2013

    The wide-ranging book edited by Christer Pursiainen analyses developments in post-communist Russia and China in the context of globalization, looking at socio-economic systems, political structures

  • Regulars and the Secular Realm

    S A SmithARTICLEFrench History2010

    On 13 February 1790, the newly created National Assembly suppressed France's monastic congregations, including the Benedictines of the Congregation of Saint- Maur - the object of Robinson's study. In light of the suppression, post-revolutionary opinion on the future of regular orders in France asserted that religious would overwhelmingly opt for secular freedom. Indeed, liberty was seen as the appropriate antedote to communities of men who, it wa…

  • Bones of Contention

    A Smith, S A SmithARTICLEPast & Present2009Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Bones of Contention: Bolsheviks and the Struggle against Relics 1918–1930 Get access S. A. Smith S. A. Smith European University Institute, Florence Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 204, Issue 1, August 2009, Pages 155–194, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtp023 Published: 28 September 2009

  • Revolution and the People in Russia and China

    Open AccessSteve Smith, S A SmithBOOKRevolution and the People in…2008

    A unique comparative account of the roots of Communist revolution in Russia and China. Steve Smith examines the changing social identities of peasants who settled in St Petersburg from the 1880s to 1917 and in Shanghai from the 1900s to the 1940s. Russia and China, though very different societies, were both dynastic empires with backward agrarian economies that suddenly experienced the impact of capitalist modernity. This book argues that far mor…

  • A Road Is Made

    Daniel Y K Kwan, S A SmithARTICLEThe American Historical Review2001

  • The social meanings of swearing

    A Smith, Smith et al.ARTICLEPast & Present1998Cited by: 4

    No abstract available.

  • Shorter Notices

    Steve Smith, S A SmithARTICLEThe English Historical Review1997

    SHORTER NOTICES Get access S. A. SMITH S. A. SMITH University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 446, April 1997, Pages 525-b–526, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.446.525-b Published: 01 April 1997

  • Shorter Notices

    Steve Smith, S A SmithARTICLEThe English Historical Review1996

    SHORTER NOTICES Get access S. A. SMITH S. A. SMITH University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 443, September 1996, Pages 1018-b–1019, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.443.1018-b Published: 01 September 1996

  • The ‘social’ and the ‘political’ in the Russian Revolution

    Open AccessSteve Smith, S A SmithARTICLEThe Historical Journal1995Cited by: 1References: 4

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  • Notes of a Red Guard

    Ronald Grigor Suny, Eduard M Dune et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1994

  • Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917

    S A Smith, Diane P Koenker et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1991

  • Red Petrograd. Revolution in the factories 1917-18

    Open AccessElizabeth Waters, A Smith et al.ARTICLELabour History1987

  • Oktyabr' skaya Revolutsiya i Fabzavkomy (The October Revolution and the Factory Committees)

    Ziva Galili Y Garcia, Steve Smith et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1986

  • Red Petrograd

    Donald J Raleigh, Steve Smith et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1985Cited by: 1

  • Moscow workers and the revolutions of 1905 and 1917

    Steve Smith, S A SmithARTICLESoviet Studies1984Cited by: 1

  • Red Petrograd

    James H Bater, A Smith et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review1984

  • Red Petrograd

    Heather Hogan, A Smith et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1984

  • Group process in an individualized learning situation

    Open AccessJ L Cameron, Jane Cameron et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Medical…1974

  • Remedial reading

    Open AccessJOHN L CAMERON, C A BORST et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Medical…1972

  • Two unedited Texts, K. 6 and K. 7

    S A SmithARTICLEZeitschrift für Assyriologie und…1886