 | The Enigma of Soviet Petroleum: Half-Full or Half-Empty? Subjects: Area Studies; Global Development; Economics Finance Business & Industry; Humanities; Politics & International Relations; Central Asian Russian & Eastern European Studies; Development Policy; Development Theory; Economics and Development; Politics & Development; Economics Finance and Accounting; Industry & Industrial Studies; History; Military & Strategic Studies; International Politics; International Relations; Political Philosophy; European Politics; Economic Theory & Philosophy; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Industrial Economics; Labour Economics; Econometrics; International Economics; Development Economics; Political Economy; Environmental Economics; History of Economic Thought; Primary Industries; Energy Industries & Utilities; Manufacturing Industries; Transport Industries; Construction & Heavy Industry; European History; World/ International History; Contemporary History 1945-; The Cold War; Security Studies - Military & Strategic; Strategic Studies; Russian & Soviet Politics; Foreign Policy; Marxism & Communism; Military Studies; No description is available. Marshall Irwin Goldman was born in Elgin, Illinois on July 26, 1930. He received a bachelor's degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1952 and received master's and doctoral degrees in economics from Harvard University. After being drafted and serving as a teacher in the Army, he joined the faculty at Wellesley College in 1958 and remained there until he retirement in 2002. He was also the associate director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University from 1975 to 2006. He was an authority on the Soviet economy. He diagnosed deficiencies in Moscow's economic policies and was among the first Kremlinologists to predict the downfall of Mikhail S. Gorbachev. He wrote several books including U.S.S.R. in Crisis: The Failure of an Economic System, Gorbachev's Challenge: Economic Reform in the Age of High Technology, and Petrostate: Putin, Power and the New Russia. He died from complications of dementia on August 2, 2017 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) |
