Stephen G Wheatcroft

Datos Biográficos

ID3595759
NOMBREStephen G Wheatcroft
NOMBRESStephen G
APELLIDOWheatcroft
FIRMAWHEATCROFT S G
AFILIACIONESThe University of Melbourne
ORCID0000-0002-0512-3275
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS46
TOTAL DE CITAS102
TOTAL COMO AUTOR46
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1957
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2022
ÍNDICE H6

  • Towards a more critical understanding of the statistical indicators of Soviet repression and what they tell us

    Stephen G WheatcroftARTICLECahiers du monde russe2022

    Professor Khlevniuk’s article ‘Who and how many’ claims that there is an absence of knowledge or interest on the question of the overall number of victims of Stalinist terror and state repression, and he offers his explanation for this paucity of work or interest, before he attempts to fill the gap by producing a series of aggregate figures for different types of repression amongst different circles of victims. His first circle has 23-26 million …

  • Soviet Statistics under Stalinism

    Stephen G WheatcroftARTICLEEurope Asia Studies2019Referencias: 2

    This essay attempts to understand the history and politics of Soviet grain and demographic statistics, and to show how they were used by the government. It covers the period from Lenin until Stalin’s death. Distortions arose because of over-ambitious planning. Attempts to correct these distortions in 1932 failed because of the cover-up of the famine. Also the results of the census of 1937 were rejected, but the repeat census of 1939 did provide m…

  • The Turn Away from Economic Explanations for Soviet Famines

    Open AccessStephen G WheatcroftARTICLEContemporary European History2018Citada por: 2

    Anne Appelbaum's work is a very readable and accessible story about the famine. In her own words, her objective was to tell ‘what actually happened. . . . What chain of events, and what mentality, led to the famine? Who was responsible?’ (xv). Right from the beginning she indicates that she thinks that the famine was the result of someone's mentality, and that her objective is to find who should be blamed for it. Her's is a very simple story. It …

  • The European Famines of World Wars I and II

    Open AccessStephen G Wheatcroft, Stephen Wheatcroft et al.CHAPTERFamine in European History2017

    This chapter considers the regional and chronological aspects of the serious food crises during and after World Wars I and II, which among some groups of the population in certain regions at certain times reached famine proportions. It is divided into three parts. The first two consider the food supply problems associated with these crises and their immediate demographic consequences. The third part considers the longer-term health consequences o…

  • Oscar Sanchez-Sibony. Red Globalization

    Stephen G WheatcroftARTICLEThe American Historical Review2015

  • The Soviet Famine of 1946–1947, the Weather and Human Agency in Historical Perspective

    Stephen G WheatcroftARTICLEEurope Asia Studies2012Citada por: 1Referencias: 3

    This article considers the famine of the immediate post-war period of 1946–1947 in relation to the food problems experienced by the USSR in World War II and to the impact of the weather conditions from 1941. It is argued that the timing and nature of the extreme food problems experienced in this famine conform to a general pattern of Soviet famines in which urban food supply problems over a number of years give rise to increasing pressure on the …

  • The first 35 years of Soviet living standards

    Open AccessStephen G WheatcroftARTICLEExplorations in Economic History2009Citada por: 12Referencias: 10

  • Children's Experiences of War

    Stephen G Wheatcroft, S WheatcroftARTICLETwentieth Century British History2008

    The experiences of children during the Second World War have attracted considerable attention, both scholarly and popular. Not all children however, have received equal attention. Handicapped children are conspicuous by their absence from all types of literature, both on evacuation and on children's experiences of the Second World War. This article restores these children to the story of wartime England and assesses their experiences. It examines…

  • Agency and Terror

    Open AccessStephen G WheatcroftARTICLEAustralian Journal of Politics &…2007

    This article presents an account of the history of Soviet repression, which integrates our current understanding of the scale and nature of repression with a history of the agents responsible for carrying out these operations. It notes that the major shifts in the nature of repression were accompanied by shifts in the operational leadership within the security forces, and that it was largely the same groups of individuals who were responsible for…

  • On continuing to misunderstand arguments

    Stephen G WheatcroftARTICLEEurope Asia Studies2007Citada por: 1Referencias: 2

    In his recent article (Tauger 2006, pp. 973 – 984), Mark Tauger disagreed with a series of arguments and assessments that had been made by Davies and Wheatcroft in The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agric

  • Stalin and the Soviet Famine of 1932 – 33

    R W Davies, Stephen G WheatcroftARTICLEEurope Asia Studies2006Citada por: 1Referencias: 2

    This Reply, while confirming that Stalin's policies were ruthless and brutal, shows that there are no serious grounds for Ellman's view that Stalin pursued a conscious policy of starvation of the peasants during the famine. It also rejects Ellman's claim that in their recent book [Davies and Wheatcroft (the authors neglect Soviet policy and leadership perceptions in their account of the famine

  • Towards Explaining Soviet Famine of 1931-3

    G Wheatcroft, Stephen G WheatcroftARTICLEFood and Foodways2004Citada por: 1

    This article analyzes the causes of the great Soviet famine of 1931–3 in terms of a complex of factors operating at different times. It begins with a brief description of the historical patterns of food supply and the causes of earlier Russian famines, which it argues are important for understanding the 1931–3 famine. The location and timing of the separate stages of the famine and the increases in mortality associated with these separate stages …

  • The Scale and Nature of Stalinist Repression and its Demographic Significance

    Stephen G WheatcroftARTICLEEurope Asia Studies2000Citada por: 3Referencias: 2

    The scale and nature of Stalinist repression and its demographic significance: on comments by Keep and Conquest

  • Victims of Stalinism and the Soviet Secret Police

    Stephen G WheatcroftARTICLEEurope Asia Studies1999Citada por: 6Referencias: 13

    Victims of Stalinism and the Soviet secret police: the comparability and reliability of the archival data - not the last word

  • The Great Leap Upwards

    Open AccessStephen G WheatcroftARTICLESlavic Review1999Citada por: 13Referencias: 10

    Assessing the change in the level of Soviet welfare in the first half of the twentieth century presents many problems. There are the problems associated with the reliability and accessibility of Soviet statistics, and there are those associated with the problem of understanding the peculiar nature of the Soviet situation in which a trend toward rapid secular improvements in welfare and life expectancy were accompanied by massive shortterm welfare…

  • Toward an Objective Evaluation of the Complexities of Soviet Social Reality under Stalin

    Open AccessStephen G WheatcroftARTICLESlavic Review1999

    John Komlos is one of the leading specialists on international comparative anthropometric history, and Steven L. Hoch is a leading specialist on the Russian peasantry. Their responses to my paper are a little disappointing, for they seem to have failed to grasp the main points of my argument and, despite my warnings, they have continued to view this problem from the standpoint of political interest. They both appear to be more concerned with cond…

  • Soviet statistics of nutrition and mortality during times of famine

    Stephen G WheatcroftARTICLECahiers du monde russe1997Citada por: 4

    Stephen G. Wheatcroft, Soviet statistics of nutrition and mortality during times of famine, 1917-1922 and 1931-1933. This article reviews the available nutrition and mortality data for the Soviet famines of 1917-1922 and 1931-1933. The data are remarkably detailed and are capable of providing a far fuller picture of the geographical coverage and chronology of the complex of famines than is otherwise available. There is a close relationship betwee…

  • A further note of clarification on the famine, the camps and excess mortality

    Stephen G WheatcroftARTICLEEurope Asia Studies1997Referencias: 1

  • The scale and nature of German and Soviet repression and mass killings, 1930–451

    Stephen G Wheatcroft, Stephen WheatcroftARTICLEEurope Asia Studies1996Citada por: 9Referencias: 6

    (1996). The scale and nature of German and Soviet repression and mass killings, 1930–451. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 48, No. 8, pp. 1319-1353

  • Stalin, Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932-1933

    Open AccessR W Davies, Mark B Tauger et al.ARTICLESlavic Review1995Citada por: 8Referencias: 3

    Most western and all Soviet studies of the Stalinist economy have ignored the role played by the stockpiling of grain in the agricultural crisis of the early 1930s. Thus in his major work on Stalinist agriculture published in 1949, Naum Jasny frankly admitted that data were insufficient to reach a conclusion, merely noting that "stocks from former years probably declined during 1932." Baykov, Dobb, Volin and Nove said nothing about grain stocks. …

  • Stalin's Industrial Revolution

    G Wheatcroft, Stephen G Wheatcroft et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review1993

  • Airlines, tourism and the environment

    Open AccessStephen G Wheatcroft, Stephen WheatcroftARTICLETourism Management1991Citada por: 1Referencias: 1

  • More light on the scale of repression and excess mortality in the Soviet Union in the 1930s

    Stephen G WheatcroftARTICLESoviet Studies1990Citada por: 15Referencias: 1

    (1990). More light on the scale of repression and excess mortality in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Soviet Studies: Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 355-367

  • Towards transnational airlines

    Open AccessStephen G Wheatcroft, Stephen WheatcroftARTICLETourism Management1990Citada por: 3

  • International air transport in a changing world

    Open AccessStephen G Wheatcroft, Stephen WheatcroftARTICLETourism Management1990