Putin's Petrostate: Power, Patronage and the New Russia

Speaker: 
Marshall Goldman
 
03 Nov 2008
 
7:00 PM
 
Sun Room, Memorial Union

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Marshall I. Goldman is a recognized authority on Russian economics, politics, and environmental policy and best known for his analysis of the careers of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. He is the author of over a dozen books on the former Soviet Union, including The USSR in Crisis: The Failure of an Economic System and Gorbachev's Challenge: Economic Reform in the Age of High Technology. His most recent book is Petrostate: Putin, Power and the New Russia. Goldman is the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus) at Wellesley College, and he served for more than thirty years as the associate director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. Goldman received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Russian studies and economics from Harvard University. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program Distinguished Speaker and part of the World Affairs Series.

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