Academy Fellow

Stephen Wheatcroft is a Professorial Fellow at the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at Melbourne University

 He has written on Russian, Soviet and East European Economic, Social and Demographic History, and especially on food problems, famine and repression. He also has a particular interest in the history of Russian and Soviet statistics and economic planning. He has been prominent in work on opening up Russian, Ukrainian and Kazakh archives and in trying to normalize Soviet history, resist over-simplified totalitarian models. He is anxious to try to incorporate economic as well as political and ideological arguments into Soviet history. His work has been published in Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh, and Chinese. 

 He was educated at Keele University and the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at Birmingham University, and spent two years as a British Council Exchange Student at the Moscow Institute of National Economics in the 1970s. At Birmingham he worked in the tradition of his mentors E.H.Carr, R.W.Davies and Moshe Lewin. In Moscow he worked closely with V.P.Danilov and has remained in touch with his school. 

 After teaching and researching at Birmingham University, after receiving his PhD there, he came to a teaching position in the History Department at Melbourne University and was for a while Foundation Director of the Centre for Russian and Euro-Asian Studies at Melbourne University. After retiring from Melbourne University he taught for two years at Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan with visiting lectureships at the Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

Having written a major volume on the Soviet Famine of 1932/33 with his former PhD supervisor, he is now working on the Soviet famine of 1946/7 in Moldova, Ukraine and Russia with his former student Filip Slaveski of ANU.

 Books : 

1. Davies, R.W., Harrison, Mark, Khlevnyuk, Oleg, Wheatcroft, S.G. The Soviet Economy & the Approach of War, 1937-1939, Palgrave, Macmillan (2018), (439pp.)

2. Davies, R.W., with participation of Oleg V.Khlevnyuk & S. G.Wheatcroft, The Years of Progress: The Soviet Economy, 1934-1936, Palgrave, Macmillan (2014), (496pp.)

3. Davies, R.W. & Wheatcroft, S.G.The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-33, Macmillan (2004), (555pp.), 2^nd edition 2009, Russian edition 2011 

4. Wheatcroft, S.G. (ed.) Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History, Macmillan (2002) (237 pp)    

5. Davies, R.W., Harrison, M. and Wheatcroft, S. G. (eds) The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945, Cambridge University Press, 1994. (388 pp)

6. Davies, R.W., Ilic, M. J. Jenkins, H. P., Merridale, C. and Wheatcroft, S. G. (eds.)        

Soviet Government Officials, 1922-41: a handlist, CREES, University of Birmingham, 1989. (410 pp)  

7. Wheatcroft, S. G. and Davies, R. W. (eds)               

Materials for a Balance of the Soviet National Economy, 1928-1930, Cambridge University Press, 1985. (467 pp),reprinted as paperback in 2005

Articles and Chapters

1.       Wheatcroft, S.G. ‘The mortality of released prisoners & the scale of Soviet penal mortality, 1939-45: Comments on Mikhail Nakonechnyi’s Work’, Kritika, 2022

2.       Wheatcroft, S.G. ‘Towards a more critical understanding of the statistical indicators of Soviet Repression and what they tell us’, in Round table discussion of O. Khlevnyuk, ‘Who and how many: the scale and structure of state force in the Stalin system’, in Cahiers du Monde Russe, vol 63, no. 1, 2022, pp. 187-204

3.       Wheatcroft, Stephen, The Younger Lenin and Statistical Thinking before the Revolution and during the Creation of TsSU and Gosplan, Acta Slavic Iaponica, vol. 40, 2020, pp. 65-84

4.       Wheatcroft, S.G. The Complexity of the Kazakh Famine: Food Problems and Faulty Perceptions’ in the Book Forum: Sarah Cameron, The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018) in Journal of Genocide Research , Vol. 22, no 4, 2020,

5.       Wheatcroft , S.G. ‘Societal responses to food shortages and famine in Russia and China’ in J. Dijkman and B. van Leeuwen, An Economic History of   

Famine Resilience, Routledge, 2020, pp. 182-202

6.       Wheatcroft, S.G. ‘Soviet Statistics under Stalinism: Reliability and Distortions in Grain & Population Statistics’, Europe Asia Studies,  vol.71, No. 6, July 2019, pp.1013-1035

7.       Wheatcroft, S.G. ‘The turn away from economic explanations for Soviet famines’, Contemporary European History, vol. 27, no.3, pp. 465-469. 2018.

8.       Wheatcroft, S.G. Famines in Russia and the USSR, in Cormac O’ Grada and Guido Alfoni, eds., Famines in Europe, Cambridge University Press,  2017

9.       Wheatcroft, S.G. and O’ Grado, Cormac, The European Famines of World Wars 1 and 2: Causes and Consequences, in Cormac O’ Grada and Guido Alfoni, eds., Famines in Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2017

10. Wheatcroft, S.G. Famine, food problems and Imperialism, in The Encyclopedia of Empire, John Wiley and Sons, 2016  

11. Wheatcroft, S.G. On Scale and Causation in the Great Chinese and Soviet Famines in He Xuefeng and Cao Tianyu, eds., The past & future of land tenure in rural China 中国农村土地集体所有制的历史与未来. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press. 2014

12. Wheatcroft, S.G., ‘Golod v Kazakhstane I na Ukraine’ (Famine in Kazakhstan and Ukraine), E.B.Sydikov, ed, Golod 1930-kh godov v Ukraine i Kazakhstane: Voprosy istoriografii I podkhoody k issledovaniyu problem (k 80-letiyu tragediya), (The Famine of the 1930s in Kazakhstan and Ukraine: Questions of Historiography & approaches (to the 80^th Anniversary of the tragedy), Astana, 2014, pp. 178-190. 

13. Wheatcroft, S.G., Garnaut, A., & Leikin, I, Mapping crude death rates in Ukraine in 1933 and explaining the raion patterns, in Golod v Ukraini y pershii polovini XX stolittya: prichini ta naslidki (1921-1923, 1932-1933, 1946-1947): Materiali Mizhnarodhoi naukovoi konferentsii, Institut demogafii ta sotsial’nikh doslidzhen’ imeni M.V.Ptukhi NAN Ukraini. Institut istorii Ukraini NAN Ukrain, Kiivskii natsional’nii universitet imeni Tarasa Shevchenka, Natsional’nii universitet “Kievo-Mogilyanska Akademiya”, Kiiv 2013

14. Уиткрофт С., Гарнаут А. Потери населения в отдельных районах СССР (1929–1934 гг.): статистика, карты и сравнительный анализ (особое положение Украины) – pp. 376–391, in Голод 1933. Українці: Зб. наук. праць. – К.: ДП «НВЦ «Пріоритети», 2013.

Wheatcroft, S. Garnaut A, Losses of population in separate regions of USSR (1929-1934): Statistics, Maps and Comparative Analysis (with special reference to Ukraine) pp. 376-391, in Famine 1933 Ukraine: Collection of scientific papers. Kiev-DP- NVTs "Priority" 2013

15. Wheatcroft, S.G.  Показатели демографического кризиса в период голода в СССР (Indicators of demographic crisis in the Soviet Famine), in Golod v SSSR, 1929-33, vol. 3, book 2, Moscow, 2013 [Famine in USSR, 1929-33] , and a fuller version is available on the website of the Russian State archives Administration (Gosarkhiv) http://www.rusarchives.ru/publication/wheatcroft-pokazateli-demografy-crizis-golod-sssr/  

16. Wheatcroft, S.G. The Great Terror in Historical Perspective: The Records of the Statistical Department of the Investigative Organs of OGPU/NKVD, in James Harris, ed., The Anatomy of Terror: Political Violence under Stalin, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp.287-306

17. Wheatcroft, S.G. Brief note on the Scale and Incidence of the Kazakh famine,1931-33, in Great Famine in Kazakhstan: Tragedy of the Nation and the lessons of history: International Scientific Conference: Collection of

 Materials, Astana 2012, pp.115-23

18. Wheatcroft, S.G. Soviet and Chinese Famines in historical perspective, in Mathias Middell & Felix Wemheuer, eds. Hunger and Scarcity under Socialist Rule, Leipzig University Press, 2012, pp. 307-342.

19. Wheatcroft, S.G. The Soviet Famine of 1946/47, the weather and human agency in historical perspective, Europe Asia Studies, 2012, vol. 64, no. 6, August 2012, pp. 987-1005

20. Wheatcroft, S.G. ‘Algy Soz’, ‘Predislovie’, [Introduction], 1932-1933 Zhyldardagy asharshylyk           akikaty, Pravda o golode 1932-1933 godov, [The Truth about the Famine of 1932-33] . Astana-Kazakhstan, 2012, pp. 5-6, 149-50

21. Wheatcroft, S.G. ‘Not “Refolution”, just Democratic Revolutions’, in Open

Democracy, 2/5/2011, http://www.opendemocracy.net/stephen-

wheatcroft/not-refolution-just-democratioc-revolutions   

22.  Wheatcroft, S.G. Die sowjetische und die chinesische Hungersnot in historischer Perspektive in M. Middell & F. Wemheuer, ed. Hungersnot .... , Berlin: Peter Lang , 2011.

23. Wheatcroft, S.G. The first 35 years of Soviet living standards: Secular growth and conjunctural crises in a time of famines, Explorations in Economic History, 2009, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 24-52

24. Wheatcroft, S.G.           ‘Causation and Responsibility in the Holodomor Tragedy,’ in Holodomor Studies vol. 1, no. 2, 2009, pp. 22-27,

25. Wheatcroft, S.G. ‘The Exceptional Nature of Ukraine in the 1927-33 Soviet Food Crises and Famines’, I.P. Yukhnovs’kii, ed. Golodomor 1932-1933 rokiv v Ukraini: Prichini, Demografichni Naslidki, Pravova otsinka, (The Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: Causes, Demographic Consequences and Assessments, Kiiv, Kievo-Mogilyanska Akademiya, 2009, pp. 47-58 

26. Wheatcroft, S.G.         On continuing to misunderstand arguments: Response to Mark Tauger, Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 59, no. 5, 2007, pp 847-868

27. Wheatcroft, S.G.         Agency and Terror: Evdokimov and Mass Killing in Stalin’s Great Terror, Australian Journal of Politics and History: vol. 53, no. 1, 2007, pp. 20-43. Special issue on Terror, War and Genocide edited by S.G. Wheatcroft and S. Welch.

28. Wheatcroft, S.G. Understanding Stalinism—A Reply, Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 58, no. 7, 2006, pp. 1143-1149

29. Davies, R.W. and Wheatcroft, S.G. Stalin and the Soviet Famine of 1932-33—A Reply to Ellman, Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 58, no. 4, 2006, pp. 625-633

30. Wheatcroft, S.G.           Famines, Berkshire Encyclopaedia of World History, edited by W.H. McNeill, 2005, pp. 728-33

31. Wheatcroft, S.G.           Towards explaining Soviet Famine of 1931-3: Political and Natural factors in perspective, in special issue of Food and Foodways, edited by Cormac O’Grada, vol 12, nos 2-3, April -Sept 2004, pp. 107-136     

32. Wheatcroft, S.G.           From Team-Stalin to Degenerate Tyranny: Stalin and the Soviet Political Elite in E.A. Rees, (ed.) The Nature of Stalin’s Dictatorship: The Politburo, 1924-1953, Palgrave 2004, pp. 79-107.

33. Wheatcroft, S.G.           The Crisis of the Late Tsarist Penal System, in S.G.Wheatcroft, ed., Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History, Macmillan/Palgrave 2002, pp. 25-52.

34. Wheatcroft, S.G. & Davies R.W. The Soviet Famine of 1932-33 and the Crisis in Agriculture, in S.G.Wheatcroft, ed., Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History, Macmillan/Palgrave 2002, pp. 67-89           

35. Wheatcroft, S.G. Towards Explaining the Changing Levels of Stalinist Repression in the 1930s: Mass Killings, in S.G.Wheatcroft, ed., Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History, Macmillan/Palgrave 2002, pp. 110-144.  

36. Wheatcroft, S.G.           Suchasne uyavlennya pro prirodu ta riven’ smertnosti pid chas golodu 1931-1933 rokiv v Ukraini, pp. 179-186, Modern views on the nature and level of mortality during the Ukrainian famine of 1931-3) (In Ukrainian) in V. Vasiliev, Yu. Shapoval, (eds.) Komandiry bol’shogo Goloda: Poezdki V. Molotov I L. Kaganovich v Ukrainu I na Severnii Kavkaz, 1932-1933 (Commanders of the Great Famine: The trips of Molotov and Kaganovich to Ukraine and N. Caucasus, 1932-3, Kiiv, Geneza, 2001.

37.  Wheatcroft, S.G. Sovremennoe predstavlennie o prirode I urovne smertnosti vo vremya goloda 1931-1933 godov v Ukraine, pp. 187-194. Modern views on the nature and level of mortality during the Ukrainian famine of 1931-3) (In Russian) in V. Vasiliev, Yu. Shapoval, (eds.) Komandiry bol’shogo Goloda: Poezdki V. Molotov I L. Kaganovich v Ukrainu I na Severnii Kavkaz, 1932-1933 (Commanders of the Great Famine: The trips of Molotov and Kaganovich to Ukraine and N. Caucasus, 1932-3, Kiiv, Geneza, 2001.

38. Wheatcroft, S.G. O zernovykh balansakh I otsenkakh urozhainosti v SSSR v 1931-1933 gg.’ (On grain balances and harvest evaluations in the USSR, 1931-33) in V. Danilov, R. Manning, L. Viola, R. Johnson, R. Davies, V. Kozlov, Ya. Pogodnii, A. Sakharov, S. Wheatcroft, Kha Eng Chul, T. Shanin. (eds.), The Tragedy of the Soviet Village: Collectivization and Dekulakization: Documents and Materials in 5 volumes, 1927-1939: Volume 3, 1931-1933, , Moscow 2001

39. Wheatcroft, S.G. O demograficheskikh svidetel’stvakh tragediya Sovetskoi derevni v 1931-1933 gg. (On the demographic evidence of the tragedy of the Soviet Village) in V. Danilov, R. Manning, L. Viola, R. Johnson, R. Davies, V. Kozlov, Ya. Pogodnii, A. Sakharov, S. Wheatcroft, Kha Eng Chul, T. Shanin. (eds.) The Tragedy of the Soviet Village: Collectivization and Dekulakization: Documents and Materials, 1927-1939: Volume 3, 1931-33, Moscow 2001. 

40. Wheatcroft, S.G. The Scale and Nature of Stalinist Repression and its Demographic Significance: On Comments by Keep and Conquest’, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 52, No. 6, 2000, pp. 1143-1159 

41. Wheatcroft, S. G. Ausmass und Wesen der deutschen und sowjetischen Repressionen und Massentotungen 1930 bis 1945 (The scale & nature of German & Soviet Repression & mass-killings, 1930-1945’, in German translation) in D.Dahlmann & G.Hirshfeld, (eds), Lager, Zwangsarbeit, Vertreibung and Deportation: Dimensionen der Massenverbrechen in der Sowjetunion und in Deutschland 1933 bis1945, Klartext Verlag, Essen 1999, pp. 67-110

42. Wheatcroft, S.G. Victims of Stalinism and the Soviet Secret Police: The Comparability and Reliability of the Archival Data- Not the Last Word, Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 51, no.2, 1999, pp. 315-345.

43. Wheatcroft, S.G. The Great Leap Upwards: Anthropometric Data and Indicators of Crises and Secular Change in Soviet Welfare Levels, 1880-1960, Slavic Review, vol. 58, no. 1, (Spring 1999), pp. 27-60. 

44. Wheatcroft, S.G. Toward an Objective Evaluation of the Complexities of Soviet Social Reality under Stalin, Slavic Review, vol. 58, no. 1, (Spring 1999), pp. 91-95.

45. Wheatcroft, S.G, & Davies, R.W. Sel’sko khozyaistvennoe Kritsis (Agricultural Crisis) (in Russian) in Otechestvennaya Istoriya, no. 6,1998, pp. 94-132

46. Wheatcroft, S.G. Black Bread and Sour Grapes: Pipes and Figes, and the ‘Classical’ and‘Revisionist’ Histories of the Russian Revolution , Australian Slavonic & East European Studies, Vol. 12, No.1/2, 1998, (Melbourne, Australia)  

47. Wheatcroft, S.G. A Further Note of Clarification on the Famine, the Camps and Excess Mortality, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 49, no.3, 1997, pp. 503-5. (Glasgow, UK) 

48. Wheatcroft, S.G. Soviet Statistics of Nutrition and Mortality during times of Famine, 1917-1922 and 1931-33, Cahiers du Monde russe,  vol. 38, no. 4, octobre-decembre 1997, pp. 1-34. (Paris, France). 

49. Wheatcroft, S.G.           Re-visiting the crisis zones of Euro-Asia: Part One: Alternative Views on the Success of Transition, Russian and Euro-Asian Bulletin, Vol. 6, no. 3, March 1997, pp. 1-12. (Melbourne, Australia)

50. Wheatcroft, S.G.           Re-visiting the crisis zones of Euro-Asia: Part Two: The Crisis Zones in 1997, Russian and Euro-Asian Bulletin, Vol. 6, no. 4, April 1997, pp. 1-9. (Melbourne, Australia) 

51. Wheatcroft, S.G.         Introduction, Genocide History and Fictions: Historians respond to Helen Demidenko/Darville’s “The Hand that Signed the Paper”, History Dept., University of Melbourne 1997, pp. 1-4, 43-70. 

52. Wheatcroft, S.G.         The Historical Credibility of the Setting of ‘The Hand’ as seen by a specialist historian of the Soviet Union, Genocide History and Fictions: Historians respond to Helen Demidenko/Darville’s “The Hand that Signed the Paper”,  History Dept., University of Melbourne 1997, pp. 1-4, 43-70.

53. Wheatcroft, S. G. The scale and nature of German and Soviet Repression and mass-killings, 1930-1945, Europe and Asia Studies, Vol.48, no.8, 1996, pp. 1319-1353. (Glasgow, UK) 

54. Wheatcroft, S.G.         History in Russia since the unleashing of the energy of history (Jan 1987) and the fall of the USSR (Dec 1991): Ten years on the Archive and Historical Front, 1987-1996, in V.Tikhomirov, (ed.)  In Search of Identity: Five Years Since the Fall of the Soviet Union, Centre for Russian and Euro-Asian Studies, University of Melbourne, June 1996, pp. 92-133.

55. Wheatcroft, S. G.         Charting the Crisis Zones of Euro-Asia, Russian and Euro-Asian Economics Bulletin, Vol.5, no.2, February 1996, pp.1-11, (Melbourne, Australia) 

56. Davies, R.W., Tauger, M. and Wheatcroft, S. G. Stalin, Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932-1933, SlavicReview, Fall, 1995, pp.642-657. (Illinois, USA)  ISSN 00376-6779 Reprinted in C.Read, (ed.) The Stalin Years: A Reader, Macmillan-Palgrave, 2003,pp. 86-101

57. Wheatcroft, S.G.           Yeltsin’s mire: the Chechnya disaster, Eureka Street, No.1, 1995, pp.5-6, (Melbourne Australia)

58. Wheatcroft, S.G. and Davies, R. W. The crooked mirror of Soviet economic statistics in R.W. Davies, Mark Harrison and S.G. Wheatcroft (eds), The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945, Cambridge University Press 1994, pp.25-37. 

59. Wheatcroft, S.G. and Davies, R. W. Population in R.W. Davies, Mark Harrison and S.G. Wheatcroft (eds), The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union,1913-1945, Cambridge University Press 1994, pp.57-80, 273-276. 

60. Wheatcroft, S.G. and R.W. Davies Agriculture in R.W. Davies, Mark Harrison and S.G. Wheatcroft (eds), The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945, Cambridge University Press 1994, pp.106-130,285-291.

61.  Wheatcroft, S.G. More Light on the Scale of Repression & Excess Mortality in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, in J. Arch Getty and Roberta T. Manning (eds), Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp.275-290.

62.  Wheatcroft, S. G. Famine and Food Consumption Records in Early Soviet History,1917-25, in C.Geissler and D. J. Oddy (eds), Food, Diet and Economic Change Past and Present, Leicester University Press, 1993, pp. 151-174

63. . Wheatcroft, S.G. The 1891-92 Famine in Russia: Towards a More Detailed Analysis of its Scale and Demographic Significance, in L. Edmondson & P.Waldron, (eds.), Economy and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1860-1930, Macmillan 1992, pp. 44-64

64. Wheatcroft, S. G. Crises and the Condition of the Peasantry in Late Imperial Russia, in E. Kingston- Mann and T. Mixter (eds), Peasant Economy,

 Culture and Politics of European Russia, 1800-1921, Princeton University

 Press, 1991, pp.128-174

65. Wheatcroft, S. G.        Statistical Sources for the Study of the Social History of the USSR, in S. Fitzpatrick and L. Viola (eds), A Researcher’s Guide to

Sources on Soviet Social History in the 1930s, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., New

  York, 1990

66. Wheatcroft, S. G. More Light on the Scale of Repression and Excess Mortality in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, Soviet Studies, April 1990, pp. 355-367.

67. Wheatcroft, S. G. Agriculture 1908-1928, in R. W. Davies (ed.), From Tsarism to the New Economic Policy: Continuity and Change in the Economy of the

USSR, Macmillan, 1990, pp.79-103  

68. Wheatcroft, S. G.         Glasnost’ and Rehabilitations, in T. Ito (ed.), How to Overcome the Past? The Soviets Rethink Their History, Hokkaido University Press, 1989, pp. 199-218

69. Wheatcroft, S. G. Agricultural Reform, the Food Programme and the 27th Party Congress in the USSR, in R. F. Miller, J. H. Miller and T. H. Rigby

 (eds), Gorbachev at the Helm: A New Era in Soviet Politics, Croom Helm,

1987, pp.161-188

70.  Wheatcroft, S. G. Unleashing the Energy of History, Mentioning the Unmentionable & Reconstructing Soviet Historical Awareness: Moscow 1987’,Australian Slavonic & East European Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1987, pp.85-132.

71.  Wheatcroft, S. G. Steadying the Energy of History and Probing the Limits of Glasnost’: Moscow July to December 1987, Australian Slavonic and

 East European Studies, vol. 1, no. 2., 1987, pp.57-114. 

72. Wheatcroft, S. G., Davies, R. W. and Cooper, J. M. Soviet Industrialisation

 Reconsidered: Some Preliminary Conclusions about Economic

 Development between 1926 and 1941, Economic History Review, May

 1986, pp.264-293 

73. Davies, R. W. and Wheatcroft, S. G. A Note on the Sources of Unemployment Statistics, in D. Lan (ed.), Labour and Unemployment in the USSR, Wheatsheaf,1986, pp.36-49

74.  Wheatcroft, S. G. Statistical Sources for the Study of the Social History of the USSR, in S. Fitzpatrick and L. Viola (eds), Sources for the Study of the SocialHistory of the USSR, a special issue of the journal Russian History /

 Histoire Russe, vol. 12, nos. 2-4, 1985, pp.217-246

75.  Wheatcroft, S. G. A Brief History of the Balance of the National Economy, in S. G Wheatcroft and R.W. Davies (eds), Materials for a Balance of the Soviet

 National Economy, 1928-1930, Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp.34-48  

76.  Wheatcroft, S. G. New Demographic Evidence on Excess Collectivisation Deaths: Yet Another Kliukva from Steven Rosefielde?, Slavic Review, Fall 1985, pp.505-509. 

77. Wheatcroft, S. G. A Note on Steven Rosefielde’s Calculations on Excess

 Mortality in the USSR, 1929-1949, Soviet Studies, April 1984, pp.277-281. 

78.  Wheatcroft, S. G.        Doctors and the Russian Revolution, Society for the Social History of Medicine:Bulletin, June 1984, no. 34, pp.19-24

79. Wheatcroft, S. G. Towards a Thorough Analysis of Soviet Forced Labour

 Statistics, Soviet Studies, no. 2, April 1983, pp.713-737. 

80. Wheatcroft, S. G. A Re-evaluation of Soviet Agricultural Production in the 1920s and 1930s, in R.Stuart (ed.), Studies on the Soviet Rural Economy, New Jersey, 1983, pp.32-62

81.  Wheatcroft, S. G. Famine and Epidemic Crises in Russia, 1918-1922: The Case of Saratov, Annales de Demographie Historique, 1983, pp.329-253

82. Wheatcroft, S. G.         Soviet Agricultural Production in the 1920s and 1930s in Charles Bettelheim (ed.), L’industrialisation de l’URSS dans les annees trente, Acte de la Table Ronde organisee par le Centre d’Etudes des

 Modes d’Industrialisation de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences

 Sociales, Paris, 1982, pp.65-82

83. Wheatcroft, S. G.         Some Background Notes on the Film “Famine in Russia 1921”, Famine in History Newsletter, an occasional publication for the

 participants in the session on Famine in History at the Eighth International

 Economic History Congress, Budapest, Hungary, 1982

84. Wheatcroft, S. G. On Assessing the Size of Forced Concentration Camp Labour in the Soviet Union, 1959-1956, Soviet Studies, no. 2, April 1981, pp.265-295. 

85. Davies, R. W. and Wheatcroft, S. G. Steven Rosefielde’s kliukva, Slavic Review, no. 4, December 1980, pp.593-603. 

86. Davies, R. W. and Wheatcroft, S. G. Further Thoughts on the First Soviet Five Year Plan, Slavic Review, no. 4, December 1974, pp.790-802. 

87. Wheatcroft, S. G. The Reliability of Russian Pre-War Grain Output Statistics, Soviet Studies, no. 2, April 1974, pp.157-180.