Richard Stites was Professor of History 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 was the author of Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution and Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power and the co-author of A History of Russia: Peoples, Legends, Events, Forces.
