Richard B. Spence

Richard B. Spence (b. ca. 1953) is an American historian and Professor of History at the University of Idaho. He specializes in modern Russian, military, espionage and occult history. He has produced biographies of Sidney Reilly and Aleister Crowley. He has been interviewed for various documentaries on the History Channel and is a consultant for the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC.

Biography

Spence earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1981) and taught there as a visiting assistant professor from 1981 to '85. He has been affiliated with the University of Idaho since 1986. His primary areas of study are modern Russian, modern European, Middle Eastern, and military history. He has published several books and is the author of numerous articles in Revolutionary Russia, Intelligence and National Security, Journal for the Study of Anti-Semitism, American Communist History, The Historian, and other journals. He is known as Rick Spence.

Works
  • Spence, Richard B. (1991), Boris Savinkov: Renegade on the Left (East European Monographs).
  • Spence, Richard B. (1991), "The Terrorist and the Master Spy", Revolutionary Russia, Vol. 4, June 1991, No. 1.
  • Richard B. Spence, Linda L. Nelson (eds.) (1992), Scholar, Patriot, Mentor: Historical Essays in Honor of Dimitrije Djordjevic (East European Monographs), Boulder Colorado.
  • Spence, Richard B. (1995), "Sidney Reilly's Lubyanka Diary", Revolutionary Russia, Vol. 8, Dec 1995, No. 2.
  • Spence, Richard B. (1995), "Sidney Reilly in America, 1914-1917", Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 10, Jan 1995, No. 1.
  • Spence, Richard B. (1998), Entry: "Boris I of Bulgaria"; In Dictionary of World Biography, Vol.2 (Frank Northen Magill, Alison Aves, eds.), Routledge, ISBN 978- 1579580414
  • Spence, Richard B. (2002), Trust No One: The Secret World Of Sidney Reilly; Feral House.
  • Spence, Richard B. (2008). Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult. Port Townsend, Washington: Feral House. ISBN 978-1-932595-33-8. OCLC 658217241.
  • Richard B. Spence and Walter Bosley (2011), Empire of the Wheel: Espionage, the Occult and Murder in Southern California; Corvos.
  • Richard B. Spence (2012), "Catching Louis Fraina: Loyal Communist, US Government Informant, or British Agent?" American Communist History, vol. 11, no. 1 (April 2012), pp. 81–97.
  • Richard B. Spence (2012), "Death in the Adirondacks: Amtorg, Intrigue, and the Dubious Demise of Isaiya Khurgin and Efraim Sklyansky, August 1925," American Communist History, vol. 14, no. 2 (Aug. 2015), pp. 135–158.
  • Richard B. Spence (2016), Review [untitled] of Stalin's Agent: The Life and Death of Alexander Orlov by Boris Volodarsky; The Slavonic and East European Review; Vol. 94, No. 4 (October 2016), pp. 769–770; Modern Humanities Research Association; DOI: 10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.94.4.0769
  • Spence, Richard B. (2017), Wall Street and the Russian Revolution: 1905-1925; Trine Day.
  • Spence, Richard B. (2019), The Real History of Secret Societies, The Great Courses.

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