Stephen Wheatcroft

The Mortality of Released Prisoners and the Scale of Soviet Penal Mortality, 1939–45

SG Wheatcroft

Journal article  |  2022  |  Kritika

TOWARDS A MORE CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE STATISTICAL INDICATORS OF SOVIET REPRESSION AND WHAT THEY TELL US

Stephen G Wheatcroft

Journal article  |  2022  |  CAHIERS DU MONDE RUSSE

The Complexity of the Kazakh Famine: Food Problems and Faulty Perceptions

Stephen G Wheatcroft

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF GENOCIDE RESEARCH

Corn Crusade: Khrushchev's Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union.

Stephen G Wheatcroft

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY

Aaron Hale-Dorrell’s book is an attempt to save Khrushchev from some of the criticism he has received for his championing of corn ..

The Younger Lenin and Statistical Thinking before the Revolution and during the Creation of TsSU and Gosplan

Stephen Wheatcroft

Journal article  |  2020  |  Acta Slavica Iaponica

We no longer have the enthusiasm and respect for statistical thinking that was felt in the 19th Century when the smartest young br..

Societal responses to food shortages and famine in Russia and China

SG Wheatcroft

Book Chapter  |  2020

Russia and China are characterized by a greater scale and frequency of major food problems in the nineteenth and twentieth centuri..

Soviet Statistics under Stalinism: Reliability and Distortions in Grain and Population Statistics

Stephen G Wheatcroft

Journal article  |  2019  |  EUROPE-ASIA STUDIES

This essay attempts to understand the history and politics of Soviet grain and demographic statistics, and to show how they were u..

The Turn Away from Economic Explanations for Soviet Famines

Stephen G Wheatcroft

Journal article  |  2018  |  CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY

Anne Appelbaum's work is a very readable and accessible story about the famine. In her own words, her objective was to tell 'what ..

The industrialisation of Soviet Russia volume 7: The Soviet economy and the approach of war, 1937-1939

RW Davies, M Harrison, O Khlevniuk, SG Wheatcroft

Book  |  2018

This book concludes The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, an authoritative account of the Soviet Union’s industrial transformati..

The European Famines of World Wars 1 and 2: Causes and Consequences

S Wheatcroft, C O'Grada

Book Chapter  |  2017

This is the first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages until the present.