Michael Voslenski

Michael Voslenski (Mikhail Sergeyevich Voslensky, Template:Lang-ru) (December 6, 1920, Berdyansk, Ukraine—February 8 1997, Bonn, Germany) was a former Soviet writer, scientist and diplomat, an author of the book Nomenklatura: The Soviet Ruling Class, about Soviet nomenklatura, translated into 14 languages and printed in multiple editions.

Michael Voslensky was an interpreter of the Soviet Union during the Nuremberg Trials. During 1953-1955 he worked with the World Peace Council. later he worked in the USSR Academy of Sciences

In 1974, after 4 years of living in West Germany, he was stripped of Soviet citizenship (restored in 1990) and worked with the Forschungsinstitut für sowjetische Gegenwart ("Research Institute for Soviet Union").

His book, Nomenklatura was motivated by the idea of Milovan Djilas about the New Class emerging in communist states.

In his book, Secrets Revealed: Moscow Archives Speak sketches the role of terror in the Soviet system, the evolution of the Soviet secret police and the role of nomenklatura in its hierarchy.

Bibliography

• Michael Voslensky (1984). Nomenklatura: The Soviet Ruling Class (1st edition ed.). Doubleday. ISBN 0385176570. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)
• Michael Voslensky (1984). Nomenklatura: Anatomy of the Soviet Ruling Class (1st edition ed.). The Bodley Head Ltd, London. ISBN 0370304713. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)
  • Russian original was written in 1970, distributed by samizdat, and eventually printed as Восленский М.С., Номенклатура. Господствующий класс Советского Союза. М., 1991.
  • German: Nomenklatura : der herrschende Klasse der Sowjetunion
    • Wien, Molden, 1980
    • Munchen, Moewig, 1982, ISBN 3811831437
    • Molden, 1984, ISBN 3889190278
  • La nomenklatura, les privilégiés en URSS, Paris, 1980. Template:Fr icon
• Восленский М. С. Из истории политики США в германском вопросе (1918–1919 гг.). М., 1954. Template:Ru icon
• Das Geheime wird offenbar. Moskauer Archive erzählen. 1917-1991. , Langen Müller 1995, ISBN 3784425364 ("Secrets Revealed: Moscow Archives Speak") Template:De icon
• Sterbliche Götter: die Lehrmeister der Nomenklatura, Erlangen Straube, 1989, ISBN 3-927491-11-X

External links

• "Voslensky" Template:Ru icon