Archie Brown
Political scientist and historian
Archie Brown is a British political scientist and historian, now an emeritus professor of politics at Oxford. He has written about Soviet and Russian politics and about political leadership.
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British Born 1938 in Annan, Scotland, United Kingdom
About Archie Brown
Archie Brown was born in Annan, Scotland, in 1938. In 2005 he took emeritus status as a professor of politics at Oxford, and he is also an emeritus fellow of St Antony's College. There he was a professor of politics and led the Russian and East European Centre. His work also covers communism more generally, as well as the Cold War. Two of his books, The Gorbachev Factor and The Rise and Fall of Communism, each won the W. J. M. Mackenzie Prize for best political book from the UK Political Studies Association. He is also the author of The Myth of the Strong Leader.