Evan Mawdsley (born 1945) is a British historian and former Professor of International History at the University of Glasgow’s School of Humanities. He is currently a Professorial Research Fellow. He specializes in Russian history and the history of World War II.
Books in order of publication:
The Russian Revolution and the Baltic Fleet. War and Politics, February 1917—April 1918 (Macmillan, 1978)
The Russian Civil War (Allen & Unwin, 1987)
Blue Guide to Moscow and Leningrad (W. W. Norton, 1991)
The Stalin Years: The Soviet Union, 1929–1953 (Manchester University Press, 1998)
The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: The Central Committee and Its Members, 1917-1991 (Oxford University Press, 2000), with Stephen White
Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941-1945 (Bloomsbury, 2005) (second edition 2016)
World War II: A New History (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
December 1941: Twelve Days That Began a World War (Yale University Press, 2011)
Cambridge History of the Second World War (3 vols, Cambridge University Press, 2015) (General Editor)
The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II (Yale University Press, 2019)