Oleg Budnitskii (NHC Fellow, 2023–24)

Fellowship Work Summary, 2023–24

Oleg Budnitskii worked through a vast array of archival materials related to his project and drafted three chapters of his work in progress, “The Red Army is Not Ideal”: Soviet Soldiers’ Violence Against Civilians, 1939–1947. He also edited and introduced the first complete publication of the wartime notebooks (1941–1945) of the famous Russian writer and war correspondent Vasily Grossman (forthcoming, NLO (New Literary Observer) Publishing House, Moscow, 2025). Additionally, he wrote an article entitled “‘For Stalin, Fuckers!’: Vasily Grossman’s Notebooks as a Source for the History of World War II,” which is forthcoming in Cahiers du Monde Russe (65/3–4, 2024).