Nikita Vasilyevich Petrov (russian: Ники́та Васи́льевич Петро́в, born 31 January 1957, Kiev) is a Russian
historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...
. He works at ''
Memorial
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,'' a Russian organization dedicated to studying Soviet political repression. Petrov specializes in
Soviet security services.
The book about
Nikolai Ezhov written by Nikita Petrov and Marc Jansen is based on the archives made accessible after the
dissolution of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
. Petrov's part was tracking original archival documents, while Jansen worked with published sources.
On March 24, 2005 Nikita Petrov was awarded Knight's Cross of the
Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
The Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland ( pl, Order Zasługi Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is a Polish order of merit created in 1974, awarded to persons who have rendered great service to Poland. It is granted to foreigners or Poles resident a ...
for his efforts in uncovering truth about repressions against
Polish people
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Cen ...
during the war.
In 2008 Petrov earned Ph.D. from the
University of Amsterdam
The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...
(Instituut voor Cultuur en Geschiedenis, Faculty of Humanities) with the thesis "Сталин и органы НКВД-МГБ в советизации стран Центральной и Восточной Европы. 1945–1953 гг."
Articles by Petrov were published in the ''
Novaya Gazeta
''Novaya Gazeta'' ( rus, Новая газета, t=New Gazette, p=ˈnovəjə ɡɐˈzʲetə) is an independent Russian newspaper known for its critical and investigative coverage of Russian political and social affairs. It is published in Mo ...
''.
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1957 births
Living people
Writers from Kyiv
D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia alumni
University of Amsterdam alumni
20th-century Russian historians
Historians of Russia
21st-century Russian historians
Stalinism-era scholars and writers
Memorial (society)
Academic staff of the Russian State University for the Humanities
Academic staff of Moscow State University
Knights of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Russian historians of espionage