Oleg Vitalyevich Khlevniuk ( rus, Олег Витальевич Хлевнюк, born 7 July 1959
Vinnytsia
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It is the administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast and the largest city in the historic region of Podillia. A ...
,
Ukrainian SSR
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...
) is a historian and a senior researcher at the
State Archive of the Russian Federation
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in
Moscow
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.
[Oleg V. 1959–]
highbeam Much of his writing on
Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretar ...
ist
Soviet Union
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is based on newly released archival documents, including personal correspondence, drafts of Central Committee paperwork, new memoirs, and interviews with former functionaries and the families of
Politburo members.
Gleb Pavlovsky
Gleb Olegovich Pavlovsky (russian: Глеб Оле́гович Павло́вский; born 5 March 1951) is a Russian political scientist who also describes himself as a "political technologist". During the Soviet era, he was prosecuted as a d ...
has characterized him as a "leading Russian historian of Stalinism." He also a corresponding fellow of
Royal Historical Society
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Origins
The society was founded and received its royal charter in 1868. Until 1872 it was known as the Histori ...
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Works
* ''The History of the Gulag'', originally published in Russian.
* ''Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945–1953''
* ''The role of Gosplan in economic decision-making in the 1930s''
* ''In Stalin's Shadow: The Career of "Sergo" Ordzhonikidze''
* ''Master of the House: Stalin and His Inner Circle''
* ''Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator''
Stalin New Biography of a Dictator
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Award
Khlevniuk was awarded the Alexander Nove Prize (with Yoram Gorlizki) by the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies 2004 for the book ''Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953''.[
In 2016, Pushkin House UK recognized his ''Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator'' as "the best Russian book in English translation" for that year.
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References
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Russian writers
Living people
Historians of communism
1959 births
Higher School of Economics faculty