Professor Richard Taylor MA (Cantab), PhD (LSE), F.R.Hist.S Emeritus Professor of Politics
Richard joined the Department in 1971, bringing with him a unique breadth of expertise on Russian, German and European 20th-century political history and the use of propaganda. He has since worked to establish the study of media (especially cinema) in politics and history as an important field for the department, the School and the University.
Research Richard is an authority on Russian and Soviet cinema and the use of film for propaganda purposes. He has spent several extended periods researching in libraries and archives in the former Soviet Union, Germany, France and the USA. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has held Honorary Fellowships Oxford, London and Washington DC. His most recent publications include The Pudovkin Collection (edited & translated, 2006), The Eisenstein Collection (edited & translated, 2005), October (2002), The Battleship Potemkin (2000), The BFI Companion to Cinema in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (co-editor, 2000), and Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia& Nazi Germany (2nd edn, 1998). He also edited the 5-volume edition of Eisenstein’s Selected Works for the British Film Institute (1988-95). He is now working on a monograph on The Stalinist Musical. Richard has also scripted two television programmes on Soviet cinema for the BBC.
