Stephen Anthony Smith, FBA, FRHistS (born 1952) is a British historian and academic.
[2] Born in 1952,[1] Smith completed his undergraduate studies at Oriel College, Oxford (1970–73),[3] graduating with a modern history degree.
In 1974, he was then awarded a Master of Social Science degree in Soviet studies from the University of Birmingham, where he remained to carry out doctoral studies; his PhD was awarded in 1980[1] for his thesis "The Russian Revolution and the factories of Petrograd, February 1917 to June 1918".
[1] In 2008, he moved to the European University Institute in Florence to be Professor of Comparative History, and remained there until 2012, when he was appointed Professor of History at the University of Oxford and a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.
[1] According to his college profile, Smith's "research interests are in the histories of modern Russia and China and in comparative Communism.