Oleg Khlevniuk

Oleg Vitalyevich Khlevniuk (Олег Витальевич Хлевнюк; born 7 July 1959 in Vinnytsia, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian historian. He taught at the history department of Moscow State University and is currently a professor at the Higher School of Economics. He authored a number of books on Stalinist Soviet Union. He is a recipient, together with Yoram Gorlizki, of Alec Nove Prize for book Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945–1953 in 2004. He received the Enlightener Prize in 2023.

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