Oleg Khlevniuk in 2017.

Oleg Vitalyevich Khlevniuk (Russian: Олег Витальевич Хлевнюк, born 7 July 1959 Vinnytsia, Ukrainian SSR) is a historian and a senior researcher at the State Archive of the Russian Federation in Moscow. Much of his writing on Stalinist Soviet Union is based on newly released archival do*ents, including personal correspondence, drafts of Central Committee paperwork, new memoirs, and interviews with former functionaries and the families of Politburo members. Gleb Pavlovsky has characterized him as a "leading Russian historian of Stalinism." He also a corresponding fellow of Royal Historical Society.

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

Award

Khlevniuk was awarded the Alexander Nove Prize (with Yoram Gorlizki) by the British *ociation 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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