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Mikhail Sergeyevich Voslensky (Russian:Михаил Серге́евич Восленский) (December 6, 1920,Berdyansk,Ukrainian SSR – February 8, 1997,Bonn,Germany) was aSovietwriter,scientist,diplomat anddissident who authored the bookNomenklatura: The Soviet Ruling Class, about the Sovietnomenklatura, translated into 14 languages and printed in multiple editions.
Voslensky was an interpreter for the Soviet Union during theNuremberg Trials. In 1953-1955 he worked with theWorld Peace Council. Later he worked at theSoviet Academy of Sciences.
In 1974, after 4 years of living inWest Germany, he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship (restored in 1990) and worked with the Forschungsinstitut für Sowjetische Gegenwart (Research Institute for the Soviet Union).
His bookNomenklatura was motivated byMilovan Djilas's concept of aNew Class emerging incommunist states.
His bookSecrets Revealed: Moscow Archives Speak sketches the role of terror in the Soviet system, the evolution of the Sovietsecret police, and the role of thenomenklatura in its hierarchy.
