Khlevnyuk, Oleg Vitalievich

He graduated from Vinnitsa school number 2, VGPI them. N. Ostrovsky with a degree in History (1980) and postgraduate studies at the Institute of History of the USSR (1985). Candidate of Historical Sciences (1987, thesis "Changing the Cultural Image of Urban Workers of the USSR. 1926-1939"), Doctor of Historical Sciences (1997, thesis "Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in the 1930s: mechanisms of political power in the USSR" )

Chief specialist of the department for the study and publication of GARF documents. Under his editorship a number of collections of documents on the history of the USSR of the 1920-1960s were published.

Since 2011 - Professor of the Department of Russian History of the XX — XXI Centuries, History Department of Moscow State University . Since 2014, Leading Researcher at the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and its Consequences, Professor at the School of History, Faculty of Humanities, HSE .

Corresponding Member of the Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), member of the editorial board of Slavonica magazine, co-editor of the Documents of Soviet History series, is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Russian History , New Historical Herald , Sahiers du Monde Russe , "Kritika. Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History ”, a book series and organizing committee of the conference series“ History of Stalinism ”. Gleb Pavlovsky characterizes O. V. Khlevnyuk as “the leading Russian historian of Stalinism ” ^[3] .

Daughter Daria (born 1988) is a sociologist and journalist ^[4] .

The works of O. V. Khlevnyuk are published in English, German, French, Italian and other languages.

He was awarded the prize "Public Thought" - Publishing House ROSSPEN ( 2010 ).

• In collaboration with V. A. Kozlov . It starts with man: the human factor in socialist construction. Results and lessons of the 30s. - M.: Politizdat , 1988. - ISBN 5-250-00064-9
• Drummers of the first five-year period. - M .: Knowledge , 1989. - ISBN 5-07-000246-5
• 1937: confrontation. - M .: Knowledge, 1991. - ISBN 5-07-001654-7
• 1937: Stalin, the NKVD and Soviet society. - M .: Republic , 1992. - ISBN 5-250-01537-9
• Stalin and Ordzhonikidze: Conflicts in the Politburo in the 30s. - M .: young Russia, 1993. - ISBN 5-86646-047-5
• Politburo. The mechanisms of political power in the 1930s. - M .: ROSSPEN , 1996. - ISBN 5-86004-050-4
• Together with S.V. Mironenko . Prisoners at the construction sites of communism. Gulag and energy facilities in the USSR. Collection of documents and photos. - M.: ROSSPEN, 2008 .-- 448 p. - ISBN 978-5-8243-0918-8
• Master. Stalin and the approval of the Stalinist dictatorship . - M .: ROSSPEN, 2010 .-- 478 p. - ISBN 978-5-8243-1314-7 .
• In collaboration with J. Gorlitsky . Cold world. Stalin and the end of the Stalinist dictatorship. - M .: ROSSPEN, 2011. - ISBN 978-5-8243-1536-3
• Stalin. The life of one leader. - M .: Corpus, 2015. - ISBN 978-5-17-087722-5

• Page on the website of the Faculty of History, Moscow State University
• Page on the website of the Higher School of Economics
• Publications on the website "TRUE"
• Annotation to the book “The owner. Stalin and the approval of the Stalinist dictatorship ”
• Review in the journal "New Historical Herald"
• Life as a short course. Sources for Stalin's biography
• Ridiculous historical fakes: about who, why and how the biographies of leaders write // Lenta.ru , 08/29/2015