Samuelson, Lennart

Graduated from Stockholm University ( 1973 ). In 1970 - 1971 he trained at Moscow State University at the Faculty of Economics . During his studies at the university, he became interested in the history of Russia. In 1973− 1978 he studied at graduate school : he studied the history of Leningrad . The inaccessibility of the Soviet archives for foreign researchers did not allow to prepare a dissertation. After that he worked as a guide, translator at the News Press Agency in Stockholm . Since 1991 he has been working at the Institute of Economic History of the Stockholm School of Economics . At the same time in 1996−2001 he worked at the Swedish Military Academy.

In 1996 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic: “Soviet defense planning: MN Tukhachevsky and the military-industrial complex” (1996). The main areas of research: the history of the formation and development of the military-industrial complex of the USSR (since 1992 ), the Gulag system. He is the author of publications on the Russian education system, the experience of teaching history at school and the work of local lore in the secondary school No. 59 in Chelyabinsk . In 1994, he first visited Chelyabinsk. Since 1996, he has been studying the socio-economic history of Chelyabinsk based on materials from the central archives, OGACHO. Participant in conferences on the problems of modern history of Russia and the history of the South Urals. In 2007, in Stockholm, he published the book Tankograd: The Hidden History of the Russian Rear. 1917−1953 ”(in Swedish), based on many years of research at the OGACHO and central archives. For the book “The Red Colossus on the Caterpillars: Russia's Economy in the Shadow of the Wars of the 20th Century” (in Swedish) was awarded the prize of the Swedish Military Academy (2000).

• Order of Friendship ( Russia , October 28, 2014 ) - for his great contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation with the Russian Federation, preserving and popularizing the Russian language and culture abroad ^[1] .

• Plans for Stalin's War-Machine. Tukhachevskii and Military-Economic Planning, 1925−1941. London, 1999;
• Röd Koloss På Larvfötter: Rysslands economisk i skuggan av 1900-talskrigen. Stockholm, 1999 (“The Red Colossus on the Caterpillars: Russia's Economy in the Shadow of the Wars of the 20th Century”).
• Red Colossus: Formation of the military-industrial complex of the USSR. 1921 −1941 / Translation from English. I. S. Davidyan. M., 2001.
• Sweden in the politics of Moscow 1930-1950s. M., 2005. Soavt .: O. N. Ken, A. I. Rupasov.
• Rysslands 1900-talshistoria för 2000-talets ryska ungdom // HISTORIELÄRARNAS FÖRENINGS ÅRSSKRIFT (Stockholm). 2006;
• Tankograd: den ryska hemmafrontens dolda historia. 1917 - 1953 . Stockholm, 2007;

Russian per.: Tankograd. Secrets of the Russian rear 1917−1953 / per. from swedish N.V. Dolgovoy. Series "History of Stalinism". - M .: ROSSPEN ; Foundation "Presidential Center B.N. Yeltsin" , 2010. - 376 p. - ISBN 978-5-8243-1477-9 .

• Stalin, the NKVD and the repression of 1936−1938. / Series “History of Stalinism”. - M.: ROSSPEN, 2009 .-- 432 p. - ISBN 978-5-8243-1069-6 (shared with V.N.Kaustov).

• Frantseva E. Tankograd “conquers” Europe: Professor from Sweden L. Samuelson works in the Chelyabinsk archive // ​​Chelyabinsk Worker. October 25, 2001.

• Samuelson L. Escape from the Gulag, or Captive of the Cold War myths? Critical analysis of one implausible "camp story" (neopr.) . Date of treatment November 20, 2010. Archived on April 19, 2012.
• Samuelson L. Inflating a Political Concept. A new interpretation of "genocide" . // Baltic Worlds 3-4 2012. translation of PolySMI