R・W・デイヴィス

1925年、ロンドン生まれ。1943年から1946年の第二次世界大戦中は王立空軍に従軍。1945～46年には中東に駐留した。

1950年、ロンドン大学スラブ・東欧学科(School of Slavonic and East European Studies)で学士号を取得。バーミンガム大学に進学して1954年に博士号を取得。歴史学者のアレクサンダー・バイコフ(Alexander Baykov)の指導を受けた。

• The Development of the Soviet Budgetary System, (Cambridge University Press, 1958).
• The Socialist Offensive: the Collectivisation of Soviet Agriculture, 1929-1930, (Harvard University Press, 1980).

荒田洋・奥田央訳『社会主義的攻勢――ソヴェト農業集団化・1929-1930』（御茶の水書房, 1981年）

• The Soviet Collective Farm, 1929-1930, (Macmillan, 1980).
• Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution, (Macmillan, 1989).

富田武・下斗米伸夫・永綱憲悟・広岡直子・鈴木義一訳『ペレストロイカと歴史像の転換』（岩波書店, 1990年）

• The Soviet Economy in Turmoil, 1929-1930, (Macmillan, 1989).
• Crisis and Progress in the Soviet Economy, 1931-1933, (Macmillan, 1996).
• Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era, (Macmillan, 1997).

内田健二・中嶋毅訳『現代ロシアの歴史論争』（岩波書店, 1998年）

• Soviet Economic Development from Lenin to Khrushchev, (Cambridge University Press, 1998).

• Foundations of a Planned Economy 1926-1929, with Edward Hallett Carr, (Macmillan, 1969).
• Soviet Official Statistics on Industrial Production: Capital Stock and Capital Investment, 1928-41, with J. M. Cooper and M. J. Ilic, (Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, 1991).
• The Role of Gosplan in Economic Decision-Making in the 1930s, with O. Khlevnyuk, (Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, 1993).
• The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933, with Stephen G. Wheatcroft, (Palgrave, 2004).

• The Soviet Union, (Allen & Unwin, 1978).
• Soviet Investment for Planned Industrialisation, 1929-1937: Policy and Practice, (Berkeley　Slavic Specialties, 1984).
• From Tsarism to the New Economic Policy: Continuity and Change in the Economy of the USSR, (Macmillan, 1990).

• The Technological Level of Soviet Industry, co-edited with Ronald Amann and Julian Cooper, (Yale University Press, 1977).
• Materials for a Balance of the Soviet National Economy, 1928-1930, co-edited with S. G. Wheatcroft, (Cambridge University Press, 1985).
• The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945, co-edited with Mark Harrison and S. G. Wheatcroft, (Cambridge University Press, 1994).
• The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence 1931-36, (Yale University Press, 2003).