Hughes studied Political Science and Ancient History at Queen's University Belfast, and graduated with a BA (Hons) First-Class in 1982. He was awarded two university prizes. Subsequently, he was awarded a Department of Education Northern Ireland scholarship to study for a PhD at the LSE (1982-7), and was supervised first by Professor Peter Reddaway, and then by Professor Dominic Lieven. While at LSE, he studied Russian language at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. In 1985-6 he held a British Council Scholarship and was a student at Moscow State University, USSR, where he worked in Soviet archives.[2]
Selected publications
Books
Hughes, James (1987). Bolsheviks and peasants in Siberia and the end of N.E.P.: a study of the grain crisis of 1927/28 (Ph.D. thesis). London School of Economics. OCLC940324605.
Hughes, James (1991). Stalin, Siberia, and the crisis of the New Economic Policy. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN9780521380393. Excerpt.
Hughes, James (1996). Stalinism in a Russian province: a study of collectivization and dekulakization in Siberia. New York Basingstoke: St. Martin's Press in association with the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. ISBN9780333657485.
Hughes, James; Dowding, Keith; Margetts, Helen (2001). Challenges to democracy: ideas, involvement, and institutions. The Political Studies Association Yearbook 2000. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave. ISBN9780333789827.
Hughes, James; Sasse, Gwendolyn, eds. (2002). Ethnicity and territory in the former Soviet Union: regions in conflict. Cass series in regional and federal studies. London Portland, Oregon: Frank Cass. ISBN9780714682105.
Hughes, James; Sasse, Gwendolyn; Gordon, Claire E. (2004). Europeanization and regionalization in the EU's enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe: the myth of conditionality. Series: One Europe or several?. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN9781403939876.
Hughes, James (2013). "Russia and the secession of Kosovo: power, norms and the failure of multilateralism". Europe-Asia Studies. 65 (5): 992–1016. doi:10.1080/09668136.2013.792448. S2CID154632469.
References
^Hughes, James (1987). Bolsheviks and peasants in Siberia and the end of N.E.P.: a study of the grain crisis of 1927/28 (Ph.D. thesis). London School of Economics. OCLC940324605.