Leopold H. Haimson

Leopold Henri Haimson (1927 – December 18, 2010) was a historian and professor emeritus of Columbia University.

Haimson received his PhD from Harvard University in history and social relations in 1952. He was a member of faculty at the University of Chicago from 1956. He joined the faculty at Columbia in 1965 as a professor of Russian history and a member of the Russian Institute. He has been the Director of the Interuniversity Project on the History of Menshevik Movement and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He published many books and articles, specializing in the history of Russia, particularly the Mensheviks movement.

Publications

• Russia's Revolutionary Experience, 1905-1917 : Two Essays
• The Making of Three Russian Revolutionaries: Voices from the Menshevik Past
• Strikes, Social Conflict, and the First World War : An International Perspective
• The Politics of Rural Russia, 1905-1914
• The Mensheviks : From the Revolution of 1917 to the Second World War
• Russian Marxists and the Origins of Bolshevism

References

• An interview with Leopold Haimson