Alexander Nove

Alexander Nove
Born24 November 1915
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died15 May 1994
NationalityBritish
Known forThe Soviet Economy, Political Economy and Soviet Socialism
SpouseIrene MacPherson (m. 1951)
ChildrenPerry Nove, David Nove, Charles Nove
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the British Academy
Academic background
EducationLondon School of Economics
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Glasgow, University of London

Alexander Nove, FRSE, FBA (born Aleksandr Yakovlevich Novakovsky; Russian: Алекса́ндр Я́ковлевич Новако́вский; also published under Alec Nove; 24 November 1915 – 15 May 1994), a non-Marxist socialist, was Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow and a noted authority on Russian and Soviet economic history. According to Ian D. Thatcher, "[T]he consensus is that he was one of the most significant scholars of 'Soviet' studies in its widest sense and beyond."