Tibor Szamuely (historian)

See also Tibor Szamuely, the subject's uncle.

Tibor Szamuely
Born17 May 1925
Moscow, Russia
Died10 December 1972(1972-12-10) (aged 47)
London, United Kingdom
Occupation(s)historian and polemicist[1]

Tibor Szamuely (14 May 1925 – 10 December 1972) was a Russian-born Hungarian historian and polemicist.

Szamuely was born in Moscow,[2] the eldest of three children and elder son of György Szamuely and his wife, Elsa Szanto, both from Hungarian Jewish merchant families.[3] He received his education in England, first at Bertrand Russell's Beacon Hill School in Hampshire, and later at the progressive Summerhill School in Suffolk. Returning to Moscow in the 1930s with his family, he was later evacuated to Tomsk during the Second World War. He served with the Red Army in their occupation of Hungary, but would later return to the Soviet Union to study history at the University of Moscow.

  1. ^ Hurst, M. (2016). British Human Rights Organizations and Soviet Dissent, 1965-1985. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-4725-2234-4.
  2. ^ Brian Harrison (2002). Secret Lives. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-860637-6.
  3. ^ "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31745. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)