Leonard Schapiro
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Schapiro was of Russian-Jewish background; his father, Max, was the University of Glasgow-educated son of a wealthy businessman who owned a timber mill and forests outside Riga, Latvia; his mother, Leah, was a Polish rabbi's daughter. Born in Glasgow, he was taken to Russia and spent some of his childhood in Riga (his father having taken over the family timber business) and St. Petersburg, when his father took a position in railway administration. He returned to Britain with his parents in 1920 and completed his education in London, at St Paul's School, then at University College, London. He was called to the Bar from Gray's Inn in 1932, returning to the law after the Second World War until 1955. His fluency in Russian, German, French and Italian led him to work for the B.B.C.'s Monitoring Service in 1940; in 1942 he joined the General Staff at the War Office, and from 1945 to 1946 served in the Intelligence Division of the German Control Command, reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Schapiro's traditional liberalism alienated him from those scholars more sympathetic to the goals, if not the means, of Soviet socialism, such as E. H. Carr.
A scholar with interests that ranged well beyond political history, Schapiro was the author of an authoritative biography of Ivan Turgenev, as well as the translator into English of Turgenev's novel ''Spring Torrents''. After his death, some of his articles on liberalism, Marxism, and literature appeared in the volume ''Russian Studies''. He had married firstly, in 1943, Isabel de Madariaga, an historian of eighteenth century Russia; following their 1976 divorce, he married editor Roma Thewes. Provided by Wikipedia
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