William Bruce Lincoln (September 6, 1938 – April 9, 2000) was an American scholar and author who wrote a number of widely-read books on Russian history. An expert noted for his narrative skills, he explained that he began “to write for a broader audience in the hope that my efforts to explain Russia’s past may enable readers to better understand Russia’s present.”.
Books in order of publication:
Nikolai Miliutin: An Enlightened Russian Bureaucrat (Oriental Research Partners, 1977)
Nicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias (Allen Lane Penguin, 1978) German edition, 1981; Polish edition, 1988.
Petr Petrovich Semenov-Tian-Shanskii: The Life of a Russian Geographer (Oriental Research Partners, 1980)
The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias (Dial Press-Doubleday, 1981) Spanish edition, 1984; Chinese edition, forthcoming.
In the Vanguard of Reform: Russia’s Enlightened Bureaucrats (Northern Illinois University Press, 1982) Italian edition, 1993.
In War’s Dark Shadow: The Russians Before the Great War (Dial Press-Doubleday, 1983)
Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution (Simon and Schuster, 1986)
Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War (Simon and Schuster, 1989) Italian edition, 1991.
The Great Reforms: Autocracy, Bureaucracy, and the Politics of Change in Imperial Russia (Northern Illinois University Press, 1990) Italian edition, 1993.
The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians (Random House, 1994) German edition, 1996.
Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of A Thousand Years of Artistic Life in Russia (Viking Press, 1998)
Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia (published posthumously, Basic Books, 2001)
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