Stephen G. Wheatcroft Explained

Stephen George Wheatcroft^[1] (born 1 June 1947)^[2] is a Professorial Fellow of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include Russian pre-revolutionary and Soviet social, economic and demographic history, as well as famine and food supply problems in modern world history, the impact of media on history, and in recent developments in Russian and Ukrainian society.^[3] Wheatcroft speaks Russian fluently and has spent a good portion of his career researching in the Soviet archives, and he played a major role in publishing materials from the archives.^{[4] [5]}

Wheatcroft was named a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2005.^[6]

Selected works

Books

• Book: Davies. R. W.. R. W. Davies. Harrison. Mark. Wheatcroft. S. G.. The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913–1945. 1994. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-45152-9.
• (co-editor; publication of archival materials) The Tragedy of the Soviet Village, 1927-1939 2001 in Russian
• Book: Wheatcroft. S. G.. 2002 . Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History. Palgrave Macmillan. 978-0333754610.
• Book: Davies. R. W.. Wheatcroft. S. G.. The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 5: The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture 1931-1933. 2004. Palgrave Macmillan . 978-0-230-23855-8.

Articles

• More light on the scale of repression and excess mortality in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. 152086. Wheatcroft, S. G. . 1990. 42. 2 . 355–367. Soviet Studies. 10.1080/09668139008411872.
• Stalin, Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932-1933. 2501740. Davies. R. W.. Tauger. M. B.. Wheatcroft. S. G.. 1995. 54 . 3 . 642–657. Slavic Review. 10.2307/2501740. 163790684 .
• The Scale and Nature of German and Soviet Repression and Mass Killings, 1930–45. Wheatcroft. S. G.. 1996. 48. 8 . 1319–1353 . Europe-Asia Studies. 152781. 10.1080/09668139608412415.
• Wheatcroft, S. G. . A Further Note of Clarification on the Famine, the Camps and Excess Mortality. Europe-Asia Studies. 49 . 3. 503–505. 1997. 10.1080/09668139708412456.
• Wheatcroft, S. G. . Victims of Stalinism and the Soviet Secret Police: The Comparability and Reliability of the Archival Data. Not the Last Word. Europe-Asia Studies. 51. 2. 315–345. 1999. 10.1080/09668139999056.
• Wheatcroft, S. G. . The Scale and Nature of Stalinist Repression and its Demographic Significance: On Comments by Keep and Conquest. Europe-Asia Studies. 52 . 6. 1143–1159. 2000. 10.1080/09668130050143860. 19326595. 205667754 .
• Wheatcroft . S. G. . 2004 . Towards Explaining the Soviet Famine of 1931–1933: Political and Natural Factors in Perspective . Food and Foodways . 12 . 2–3 . 107–136 . 10.1080/07409710490491447. 155003439 .
• Davies. R. W.. Wheatcroft. S. G.. 2006. Stalin and the Soviet Famine of 1932-1933: A Reply to Ellman. Europe-Asia Studies. 58 . 4 . 625–633 . 10.1080/09668130600652217. 145729808 .
• Stephen . Wheatcroft . Stephen G. Wheatcroft . 2018 . The Turn Away from Economic Explanations for Soviet Famines . . 27 . 3 . 465–469 . 10.1017/S0960777318000358 . free . 10536/DRO/DU:30116832 . free .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Stephen George Wheatcroft. Wilson Center.
2. Web site: Stephen G. Wheatcroft Australian historian. VIAF. 28 December 2015.
3. Web site: Professor Stephen Wheatcroft. 17 December 2015. 28 December 2015.
4. Web site: The professor who came in from the cold . 2015-08-18. Pursuit. University of Melbourne . 2 November 2017 .
5. Web site: Welcome Professor Stephen Wheatcroft. Holbrook. Carolyn. 28 February 2018 . Deakin University. 16 August 2018 .
6. Web site: Academy Fellows - Professor Stephen Wheatcroft. Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. 28 December 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160106014848/http://www.assa.edu.au/fellowship/fellow/484. 6 January 2016. dmy-all.