OBITUARY: Michael Confino (1926-2010)

Miller presents an obituary for Michael Confino, one of the most prominent historians of Russia, who died on June 16, 2010. Confino was an extraordinary researcher and writer who managed to combine two unusual gifts. On the one hand, he possessed a linguistic capacity that enabled him to explore a vast range of historical issues. On the other, he had an incisive intellectual curiosity with which he explored the problems that fascinated him, creating in the process conceptual structures of great depth.