Nikolay Mitrokhin is an historian, sociologist of religion, and political analyst. He is a fellow at the Research Center for East European Studies of Bremen University (Germany). He is the author of more than 100 articles on ethnic and religious problems in the former Soviet Union and the CIS from 1953 through the present, as well as several books in Russian, including The Economic Activity of the Russian Orthodox Church (2000), The Russian Party: Russian Nationalist Movement in the USSR, 1953-1985 (2003, German edition in 2015), The Russian Orthodox Church: Contemporary Condition and Problems (2004, 2006). His monograph Essays on Soviet economic policy (1965-1989) is forthcoming in 2023. In 2007-2017, Mitrokhin studied the Central Committee of the Communist Party and interviewed many of its former staff members, a project that resulted in his book on the collective biography of the soviet apparatchik.
Nikolay MItrokhin. A Social History of the Soviet Apparatchiks (1953–1985)
