Konstantin Feodosyevich Shteppa[a] (December 3, 1896, Lokhvytsia – November 19, 1958, New York City) was a Soviet and American historian of German-Ukrainian descent.
Originally an NKVD informant, he switched allegiance to the SD, the intelligence agency of the SS and the Gestapo, during World War II.
In 1939 he was released without explanation and restored to his professor position in the University; Ukrainian historians accuse him of continued cooperation with NKVD.
As a result, Shteppa was appointed editor-in-chief of the newly created newspaper "The New Ukrainian Word" (which, unlike its predecessor, was published in Russian).
[2] Later they co-authored a book "Russian Purge and the Extraction of Confession",[3] which was published under the pseudonyms of Beck and Godin in order to protect their many friends and colleagues back in the USSR.
Along with such scientists as Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov, V. O. Yakovlev (B. Troitskyi), O. P. Filipov, K. G. Krypton, and V. P. Marchenko, he was one of the co-founders and employees of the "Institute for the Study of the History and Culture of the USSR" in Munich (1950).