[4] He was selected for numerous IREX exchanges with Russia, he taught for a time at the U.S. Army Russian Institute in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, and he was Fulbright Professor at the University of Helsinki in 1995.
David M. Goldfrank, called him "absolutely one of the more important Russian historians of recent times'," reported the Washington Post.
"[5] In 2013, Georgetown's Department of History established a Richard Stites Memorial Lecture Series because "Richard Stites’ many works in the Russian field swept across the imperial and the Soviet periods and innovated ways of linking cultural explorations to their political, social, and international contexts.
"[9] In 1978, Stites published The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilism and Bolshevism, 1860-1930, " a book that virtually created a subdiscipline, he turned his attention to mass entertainment."
In 1984, he wrote the introductory essay for an English translations of Alexander Bogdanov's science fiction novel Red Star.