Gennady Vasilyevich Kostyrchenko (Костырченко, Геннадий Васильевич) (born 1954) is a Russian historian in Soviet politics.^[1]

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In 2003 Kostyrchenko was pronounced "Man of the Year 5762" by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia for his book "Тайная политика Сталина. Власть и антисемитизм" (Stalin's Secret Politics. Power and anti-Semitism). ^[1][2]

• В плену у красного фараона. Политические преследования евреев в последнее сталинское десятилетие. Moscow, Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya, 1994.
  • Out of the Red Shadows: Anti-Semitism in Stalin’s Russia. Amherst, MA: Prometheus Books, 1995. —English edition of В плену у красного фараона.
• Тайная политика Сталина. Власть и антисемитизм. Moscow, Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya, 2001. Second revised and expanded edition: 2003.
• Сталин против «космополитов». Власть и еврейская интеллигенция в СССР. Moscow, ROSSPEN, 2009.
• Тайная политика Хрущёва: власть, интеллигенция, еврейский вопрос. Moscow, Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya, 2012.
• Тайная политика: от Брежнева до Горбачева Moscow, Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya, 2019.