# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-g-wheatcroft
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:17:46.194Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-g-wheatcroft"
name: "Stephen G. Wheatcroft"
slug: "stephen-g-wheatcroft"
description: "Stephen George Wheatcroft is a Professorial Fellow of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include Russian pre-revolutionary and Soviet social, economic and demographic history, as well as famine and food supply problems in modern world history, the impact of media on history, and in recent developments in Russian and Ukrainian society. Wheatcroft speaks Russian fluently and has spent a good portion of his career researching in the Soviet archives, and he played a major role in publishing materials from the archives."
tagline: "Australian historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-06-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.887042666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Стівен Віткрофт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ستيفن جى ويتكروفت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Stephen G. Wheatcroft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_G._Wheatcroft"
    title: "Stephen G. Wheatcroft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_G._Wheatcroft"
    title: "Stephen G. Wheatcroft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wheatcroft"
    title: "Stephen Wheatcroft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_G._Wheatcroft"
    title: "Stephen G. Wheatcroft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_G._Wheatcroft"
    title: "Stephen G. Wheatcroft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84%D1%82%2C_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Уиткрофт, Стивен"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump