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Email

s.wheatcroft@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
Education
Bachelors Degree
Keele University
PhD
The University of Birmingham
ORCID

0000-0002-0512-3275

Prof Stephen Wheatcroft

Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies

143 Scholarly works
4 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Hunger Redraws the Map
    DOI: 10.1017/9781009441278
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Food crises, extreme hunger and famine in Russia and the USSR1
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003465805-5
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    Agricultural Reform, the FoodProgram and the 27th PartyCongress
    DOI: 10.4324/9781032674889-7
  • 2022

    Journal article

    The Mortality of Released Prisoners and the Scale of Soviet Penal Mortality, 1939–45
    DOI: 10.1353/kri.2022.0058
  • 2022

    Journal article

    TOWARDS A MORE CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE STATISTICAL INDICATORS OF SOVIET REPRESSION AND WHAT THEY TELL US
    DOI: 10.4000/monderusse.13124
  • 2022

    Reference Work

    Famine under Communism
  • 2021

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    The Last Soviet Famine, 1946/47: Drought and Food Crises in War's Aftermath
Stephen Wheatcroft

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2005
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA)

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2020

    Journal article

    The Complexity of the Kazakh Famine: Food Problems and Faulty Perceptions
    DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2020.1807143
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Corn Crusade: Khrushchev's Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union.
    DOI: 10.1086/708595
  • 2020

    Journal article

    The Younger Lenin and Statistical Thinking before the Revolution and during the Creation of TsSU and Gosplan
    DOI: 10.14943/ASI.40.65
  • 2020

    Book Chapter

    Societal responses to food shortages and famine in Russia and China
    DOI: 10.4324/9780429200632-10

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2012

    Research Grant

    Rethinking the History of Soviet Stalinism
  • 2008

    Research Grant

    The Causes and Consequences of the Great Famines of the Last Two Centuries in Russia, China, Ireland and Elsewhere
  • Research Grant

    Soviet Social and Political Crises in Perspective: From the Famine of 1931-3 to the Yezhovshchina of 1937-8

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