Alexander Nove

Alexander Nove (born Aleksandr Novakovsky;[1] also published under Alec Nove), FRSE, FBA (24 November 1915 – 15 May 1994) was a Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow and a noted authority on Russian and Soviet economic history. According to Ian D. Thatcher, "[T]he consensus is that he was one of the most significant scholars of 'Soviet' studies in its widest sense and beyond."[2]

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Biography

Alexander Nove was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He attended King Alfred School in London and received a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics in 1936. The school later made him an Honorary Fellow in 1982.

He served in the Army between 1939 and 1946. From 1947 to 1958, he worked in Civil Service, mainly the Board of Trade. He was a Reader in Russian Social and Economic Studies at the University of London from 1958 to 1963 and Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow from 1963 to 1982. He was then Emeritus Professor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Glasgow until his death in 1994.

In 1951 he married Irene MacPherson, in their second marriage.

Nove died in Voss, Norway and was survived by three sons: Charles Nove, a voice artist and presenter and his only child from the second marriage, and his older sons Perry and David.

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  1. ^ Archie Brown and Alec Cairncross, "Alec Nove, 1915-1994: An Appreciation", Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 49, No. 3, 1997, pp. 627-641; Brown, Archie, "Nove, Alexander", on the website of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Subscription or UK public library membership required), http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/55233 ; Biography at the University of Glasgow
  2. ^ Ian D. Thatcher, "Alec Nove: a bibliographical tribute - Soviet Studies scholar", Europe-Asia Studies, December 1995.

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