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Terry Cox has contributed to the subject area covered by Europe-Asia Studies in multiple ways over a long and varied career. He came to the then Institute of Soviet Studies of Glasgow University in 1969 as a research student, having completed a degree at Durham University in Sociology and Politics. He brought with him interests in rural sociology, Soviet history and political sociology and was looking for a PhD topic related to peasant political consciousness. Alec Nove, the then institute director, suggested a study of the so-called Agrarian Marxists who had been active in developing research on the peasantry in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. The PhD was supervised by Alec jointly with Hillel Ticktin. While pursuing his PhD research, Terry was also awarded a visiting fellowship at the University of Giessen to produce a study of the newly emerging rural sociology in the Soviet Union of the 1960s and 1970s which resulted in his first book (1979a).
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