W. Bruce Lincoln

For the professor of religion, see Bruce Lincoln.

W. Bruce Lincoln (September 6, 1938 – April 9, 2000) was a scholar of early 20th century Russian history. Lincoln graduated with an A.B. and a Ph.D in 1960 and 1966 from the College of William and Mary and University of Chicago, respectively.

Lincoln taught at Memphis State University from 1966-67 and at Northern Illinois University from 1967-99. Among his most prominent positions at NIU were:

Presidential Research Professor, 1982-1986
University Research Professor, 1986-1990
Distinguished Research Professor and NIU Foundation Professor for Russian History, 1990-1999
Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, 1999-Death

Publications

Nikolai Miliutin: An Enlightened Russian Bureaucrat (1977) ISBN 0892501332
Nicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias (1978) ISBN 0713908378
Petr Petrovich Semenov-Tian-Shanskii: The Life of a Russian Geographer (1980) ISBN 0892501391
The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias (1981) ISBN 0385271875
In the Vanguard of Reform: Russia's Enlightened Bureaucrats (1982) ISBN 087580084X
In War's Dark Shadow: The Russians Before the Great War (1983) ISBN 0385274092
Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution (1986) ISBN 0671557092
Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War (1989) ISBN 0671631667
The Great Reforms: Autocracy, Bureaucracy, and the Politics of Change in Imperial Russia (1990) ISBN 0875801552
The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians (1994) ISBN 067941214X
Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of A Thousand Years of Artistic Life in Russia (1998) ISBN 0670875686
Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia (published posthumously, 2001) ISBN 9780465083237

Lee Congdon, "W. Bruce Lincoln, 1938-2000," Slavic Review (Spring 2001) 60 no. 1, 229-230.