Stephen Wheatcroft

Stephen Wheatcroft is a professor at Melbourne University. He is a scholar of Soviet history. He has worked on the Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian State and Party Archives and at the Moscow Institute of National Economics (Plekhanov Institute), the Moscow State University and the Institute of History of the Russian and Ukrainian Academy of Sciences

Not "Refolution", just Democratic Revolutions

Contra John Keane, we don’t need new words to describe the Arab Spring. These are democratic revolutions in the age of monitory democracy. Through active monitory procedures they may even stay democratic

By Stephen Wheatcroft

/ 2 May 2011

The Arab Spring and the Soviet parallel

Writing last week on openDemocracy, John Keane suggested we need new words to describe the Arab Spring. Stephen Wheatcroft came across similar calls twenty years ago when analysing the fall of the Soviet regime. Then and now, there was a simple description for the events: democratic revolutions in

By Stephen Wheatcroft

/ 2 May 2011