Catherine Merridale

Catherine Merridale (born October 12, 1959) is a writer and historian with a special interest in Russian history.

Biography

Catherine Merridale has a First Class degree in history from King's College, Cambridge and a PhD from the University of Birmingham.[1]

Retiring from her academic career, Merridale became a freelance writer in 2014. She has written for the London Review of Books, the New Statesman, The Independent, The Guardian, and the Literary Review. She has also contributed to BBC Radio.[2][3] The author has spoken out publicly about the issues of publishing books in the field of history. There is much more pressure to publish shorter articles than full-length books, a "great shame" according to Merridale, author of multiple history books.[4]

In an interview with The Independent, Merridale recalls how she became interested in Russia and its past. She began studying Russian in school and first visited the country at the age of 18. She said of her first impression of Russia, "Going from the then ghastly Soviet airport, everything in Moscow was grey and cold and hard. Suddenly in the middle of the city were these golden cupolas and enormous redbrick walls with peculiar swallowtail battlement pattern that didn’t look Russian, but did at the same time."[5] When she began work on her higher degrees, Merridale spent a year living in Moscow and observing the changes occurring during that time.[5] In another interview with Waterstones.com, Merridale summarizes her perspective of Russian history, "my message is that we have to take each generation of Russian leaders as they are and not keep assuming that Russia is fated to follow a special path and will always be the same. That there is a Russian destiny." [6]

Works

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 "Professor Catherine Merridale". Queen Mary University of London, School of History. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  2. Merridale, Catherine (2013). Red Fortress. New York: Metropolitan Books. ISBN 9780805086805.
  3. 1 2 Merridale, Catherine (2006). Ivan's War (1 ed.). New York: Metropolitan Books. ISBN 9780805074550.
  4. Furness, Hannah. "Serious history books will soon become a rarity, Wolfson History Prize winner says". The Telegraph. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  5. 1 2 3 "Author Catherine Merridale wins Pushkin Prize for her biography of the Kremlin". The Independent. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  6. "Pushkin House Book Prize: Catherine Merridale". Waterstones.com. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  7. "Red Fortress: the secret heart of Russia's history". The London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
  8. "Books by Catherine Merridale". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  9. "Winners of The Arthur Goodzeit Book Award". New York Military Affairs Symposium. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
  10. "Catherine Merridale". HeadRead. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  11. http://static.squarespace.com/static/52f75de8e4b0ec7646d0a50f/t/5373bf8fe4b0ad082231bcef/1400094607018/PHRBP%20-%20i%20(precise)%20-%202%2005%2014.pdf
  12. "Serious history books will soon become a rarity, Wolfson History Prize winner says". Telegraph. Retrieved 2014-06-13.

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