沈志华 Shen Zhihua

Director, Center for Cold War International History Studies, East China Normal University

Publication: Selected Historical Documents of the Soviet Union, 34 volumes, 2002 to 2008; Mao, Stalin and the Korean War
Proof: Open the work ↗Link checked 2026-10-04
Method: Bought declassified Russian archives with 1.4 million yuan of his own money in 1995 and published them in 34 volumes. On the Soviet thread this is as checkable as provenance gets.
Affiliations and stated position: Publishes under mainland constraints, documented. Runs a government-funded institute and has strong Party lineage. Also reports being blocked from PRC archives. Two sources disagree on how constrained he is and both may be true at different times.
Criticism: None found by name on these quantities.