Oleg Khlevniuk
Biographic Data
| ID | 5769741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oleg Khlevniuk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oleg |
| FAMILY NAME | Khlevniuk |
| SIGNATURE | KHLEVNIUK O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leading research fellow at the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russian Federation). |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Russian Review
План и рынок в cоветской экономике
L’économie soviétique planifiée ne s’est jamais entièrement pliée à des lois ou des règlements. Comme les ressources importantes étaient essentiellement réservées aux secteurs prioritaires, le système se trouvait dans un désordre permanent. La mauvaise exécution des plans déclenchait des réactions en chaîne de ruptures dans les liens économiques. On suppléait souvent à ces ruptures en utilisant diverses méthodes informelles, telles les relations …
Listening to the Soviet Union’s “Silent” Majority
Large‐scale evasion of the requirements of the law is a substantial part of the interaction between citizen and state under authoritarian regimes. Forced to exist within a coordinate grid established against their will, people routinely play games with the state with the goal of minimizing the hardships of life. Tactics of covert resistance are not necessarily politically motivated by conscious opposition to the regime. Instead, these are a matte…
Stalin and the Generals
During the years of the war between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, the Stalinist system of rule changed. Under the extreme circumstances of war, the practices of collective leadership expanded at the highest levels of power, while regional governance and state ministries were decentralised. An important aspect of this process of change was the revision of Stalin’s relationship with the military leadership. This article examines three interrel…
Substate Dictatorship
Substate Dictatorship
How do local leaders govern in a large dictatorship? What resources do they draw on? This book examines these questions by looking at one of the most important authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century. Starting in the early years after the Second World War and taking the story through to the 1970s, the book charts the strategies of Soviet regional leaders, paying particular attention to the forging and evolution of local trust networks. The…
The Pavlenko Construction Enterprise. Large-scale Private Entrepreneurialism in Stalin’s USSR
This essay reviews the characteristic features of the Soviet ‘shadow economy’ by examining the activities of a major construction enterprise headed by N. M. Pavlenko from 1948 to 1952. This was the largest currently known private illegal enterprise of the Stalinist period. Pavlenko’s organisation built dozens of roads and railways under contract to state entities. Based on newly accessible archival documents, the methods of Pavlenko’s organisatio…
Stalin’s War Cabinet
Amid the extensive literature on the Stalinist dictatorship during the 1930s and the postwar period, the gap in scholarship on the Soviet leadership during the war years is particularly noticeable. This article fills that gap. Stalin’s war cabinet is characterised according to several criteria: first, the formal status of members of the leadership; second, the system of delegating authority; third, the functioning and competency of the structure …
Decentralizing Dictatorship
Based on new archival documentation, this article investigates the process of localization (the decentralization of authority down to local actors) in the USSR during World War II. Local authorities managed the economy of some regions as a unified complex. They allocated the workforce, equipment, and materials among enterprises that reported to different commissariats (economic and state ministries) and determined production plans. In so doing, l…
Letters to Stalin
This article examines selection procedures for common citizens’ letters to Stalin, and the practices of reacting to these letters. Letters to power in general and to Stalin in particular were one of the key channels of communication between state and society in the USSR. The author analyses the dynamics of letter‐writing (including the volume of letters), the bureaucratic mechanisms (including Stalin’s personal involvement), the contents of the l…
Top Down vs. Bottom-up
Wheatcroft and Ilic's articles remind us that the task of researching the statistics of the repression, initiated many years ago, is far from complete. Yet the process has apparently come to a halt. Having gained access to the archives in the early 1990s, historians have engaged only in the most basic activities, such as citing pre-prepared data compiled by the Records Departments of the NKVD-MVD and the Ministry of Justice of the USSR. Despite t…
Stalin na voine
Master of the House
Based on research in previously unavailable documents in the Soviet archives, this book illuminates the secret inner mechanisms of power in the Soviet Union during the years when Stalin established his notorious dictatorship. It focuses on the top organ in Soviet Russia's political hierarchy of the 1930s—the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party—and on the political and interpersonal dynamics that weakened its collectiv…
Stalin
Stalin i organy gosudarstvennoj bezopasnosti v poslevoennyj period
ResumeStalin et les organes de securite d’Etat pendant l’apres-guerre.Notre article etudie les principales methodes que Stalin utilisait pour garder la haute main sur les organes de securite pendant ses dernieres annees au pouvoir (1945-1953). Notre recherche sur cette question nous a mene a examiner les remplacements effectues a la direction du MGB en 1946 et 1951, les purges au sein du MGB en 1951 ayant trait a l’« affaire Abakumov » et celles …
Stalin’s War Cabinet
Amid the extensive literature on the Stalinist dictatorship during the 1930s and the postwar period, the gap in scholarship on the Soviet leadership during the war years is particularly noticeable. This article fills that gap. Stalin’s war cabinet is characterised according to several criteria: first, the formal status of members of the leadership; second, the system of delegating authority; third, the functioning and competency of the structure …
Decentralizing Dictatorship
Based on new archival documentation, this article investigates the process of localization (the decentralization of authority down to local actors) in the USSR during World War II. Local authorities managed the economy of some regions as a unified complex. They allocated the workforce, equipment, and materials among enterprises that reported to different commissariats (economic and state ministries) and determined production plans. In so doing, l…
Letters to Stalin
This article examines selection procedures for common citizens’ letters to Stalin, and the practices of reacting to these letters. Letters to power in general and to Stalin in particular were one of the key channels of communication between state and society in the USSR. The author analyses the dynamics of letter‐writing (including the volume of letters), the bureaucratic mechanisms (including Stalin’s personal involvement), the contents of the l…
Stalin i organy gosudarstvennoj bezopasnosti v poslevoennyj period
ResumeStalin et les organes de securite d’Etat pendant l’apres-guerre.Notre article etudie les principales methodes que Stalin utilisait pour garder la haute main sur les organes de securite pendant ses dernieres annees au pouvoir (1945-1953). Notre recherche sur cette question nous a mene a examiner les remplacements effectues a la direction du MGB en 1946 et 1951, les purges au sein du MGB en 1951 ayant trait a l’« affaire Abakumov » et celles …
Stalin
Master of the House
Based on research in previously unavailable documents in the Soviet archives, this book illuminates the secret inner mechanisms of power in the Soviet Union during the years when Stalin established his notorious dictatorship. It focuses on the top organ in Soviet Russia's political hierarchy of the 1930s—the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party—and on the political and interpersonal dynamics that weakened its collectiv…
Stalin na voine
Letters to Stalin
This article examines selection procedures for common citizens’ letters to Stalin, and the practices of reacting to these letters. Letters to power in general and to Stalin in particular were one of the key channels of communication between state and society in the USSR. The author analyses the dynamics of letter‐writing (including the volume of letters), the bureaucratic mechanisms (including Stalin’s personal involvement), the contents of the l…
Top Down vs. Bottom-up
Wheatcroft and Ilic's articles remind us that the task of researching the statistics of the repression, initiated many years ago, is far from complete. Yet the process has apparently come to a halt. Having gained access to the archives in the early 1990s, historians have engaged only in the most basic activities, such as citing pre-prepared data compiled by the Records Departments of the NKVD-MVD and the Ministry of Justice of the USSR. Despite t…
Stalin’s War Cabinet
Amid the extensive literature on the Stalinist dictatorship during the 1930s and the postwar period, the gap in scholarship on the Soviet leadership during the war years is particularly noticeable. This article fills that gap. Stalin’s war cabinet is characterised according to several criteria: first, the formal status of members of the leadership; second, the system of delegating authority; third, the functioning and competency of the structure …
Decentralizing Dictatorship
Based on new archival documentation, this article investigates the process of localization (the decentralization of authority down to local actors) in the USSR during World War II. Local authorities managed the economy of some regions as a unified complex. They allocated the workforce, equipment, and materials among enterprises that reported to different commissariats (economic and state ministries) and determined production plans. In so doing, l…
The Pavlenko Construction Enterprise. Large-scale Private Entrepreneurialism in Stalin’s USSR
This essay reviews the characteristic features of the Soviet ‘shadow economy’ by examining the activities of a major construction enterprise headed by N. M. Pavlenko from 1948 to 1952. This was the largest currently known private illegal enterprise of the Stalinist period. Pavlenko’s organisation built dozens of roads and railways under contract to state entities. Based on newly accessible archival documents, the methods of Pavlenko’s organisatio…
Substate Dictatorship
Substate Dictatorship
How do local leaders govern in a large dictatorship? What resources do they draw on? This book examines these questions by looking at one of the most important authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century. Starting in the early years after the Second World War and taking the story through to the 1970s, the book charts the strategies of Soviet regional leaders, paying particular attention to the forging and evolution of local trust networks. The…
Stalin and the Generals
During the years of the war between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, the Stalinist system of rule changed. Under the extreme circumstances of war, the practices of collective leadership expanded at the highest levels of power, while regional governance and state ministries were decentralised. An important aspect of this process of change was the revision of Stalin’s relationship with the military leadership. This article examines three interrel…
План и рынок в cоветской экономике
L’économie soviétique planifiée ne s’est jamais entièrement pliée à des lois ou des règlements. Comme les ressources importantes étaient essentiellement réservées aux secteurs prioritaires, le système se trouvait dans un désordre permanent. La mauvaise exécution des plans déclenchait des réactions en chaîne de ruptures dans les liens économiques. On suppléait souvent à ces ruptures en utilisant diverses méthodes informelles, telles les relations …
Listening to the Soviet Union’s “Silent” Majority
Large‐scale evasion of the requirements of the law is a substantial part of the interaction between citizen and state under authoritarian regimes. Forced to exist within a coordinate grid established against their will, people routinely play games with the state with the goal of minimizing the hardships of life. Tactics of covert resistance are not necessarily politically motivated by conscious opposition to the regime. Instead, these are a matte…
The Russian Review
Political science (12 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Soviet and Russian History (7 works) · Democracy (6 works) · History (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Dictatorship (5 works) · European history and politics (5 works)