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Jewish Life after the USSR

Jewish Life after the USSR( )
Editor: Gitelman, Zvi
Glants, Musya
Goldman, Marshall I.
ISBN:978-0-253-34162-4
Publication Date:Mar 2003
Publisher:Indiana University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $69.59
Book Description:

Provides up-to-date information and insights on the political, economic, and cultural situation of post-Soviet Jewry.

Book Details
Pages:296
Detailed Subjects: History / Jewish
Political Science / World / Russian & Soviet
Social Science / Sociology / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.545 x 23.495 x 2.464 cm
Book Weight:0.595 Kilograms
Author Biography
(Editor)
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.

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