Professor Stephen Wheatcroft
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 5960 |
| Email: | stephenw@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 311 West History, John Medley Building The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 |
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Biography
Stephen Wheatcroft took his first degree in Economics and Russian Studies at Keele University, and his PhD in Soviet Economic History at Birmingham University. He has spent some considerable time working and researching in the Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian State and Party Archives and at the Moscow Institute of National Economics (Plekhanov Institute), the Moscow State University and the Institute of History of the Russian and Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
Research
Web projects
The Melbourne Gateway to Research on Soviet History (MelGROSH)
Russia GIS Project
Publications
Stephen has published widely on Russian pre-revolutionary and Soviet social, economic and demographic history and has recently co-authored a major history of the Soviet Famine of 1931-3. He also has a research interest in famine and food supply problems in modern world history, the impact of media on history, and in recent developments in Russian and Ukrainian society. He is one of the main editors of the major Russian publication of archival materials, The Tragedy of the Soviet Village, 1927-1939 in Russian. His major publications in English include: The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945 (Cambridge 1994, with R.W.Davies & M. Harrison); Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History (Palgrave 2002), and The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933 (Palgrave 2004, with R.W.Davies).
Teaching
131-083 Decline & Fall of the Soviet Empire
131-406 Aspects of Stalinsm
131-235 Famine in History