Selected Resources

Other Materials by Daniel Satinsky:



Oral History Archives:



Citizen Diplomacy:


Spacebridges:


Esalen Institute and Counterculture:


Citizen Exchanges and General Citizen Diplomacy:

  • Global Thinking Project, computer network between Russian and American schools begun in 1989. (https://www.jackhassard.org/gtp/gtp_in_russia.html)
  • Interview with Cynthia Lazaroff, former Director of US-USSR Youth Exchange Program. (https://www.ploughshares.org/issues-analysis/article/my-first-grant-cynthia-lazaroff).
  • The Power of Impossible Dreams – Ordinary Citizens’ Extraordinary Efforts to Avert International Crisis, by Sharon Tennison (Odenwald Press, 2012).
  • Citizen Summitry – Keeping the Peace When It Matters Too Much to be Left to Politicians, edited by Don Carlson and Craig Comstock (Ark Communications Institute, 1986).
  • Citizen Diplomats – Pathfinders in Soviet-American Relations – And How You Can Join Them, Gale Warner and Michael Shuman (Continuum Publishing Co., 1987).

Transition to Market Economy:

  • Gaidar’s Revolution – The Inside Account of the Economic Transformation of Russia, by Petr Aven and Alfred Kokh (I.B. Tauris, 2015).
  • The Selling of the Soviet Empire – Politics & Economics of Russia’s Privatization – Revelations of the Principal Insider, by Alfred Kokh (Liberty Publishing House, 1998).
  • Collision and Collusion – The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe 1989 -1998, by Janine R. Wedel (St. Martin’s Press, 1998).
  • Creating Private Enterprises and Efficient Markets, edited by Ira W. Lieberman and John Nellis (The World Bank, 1994).
  • Changing Channels – Television and the Struggle for Power in Russia, Ellen Mickiewicz (Oxford University Press, 1997).
  • Soviet and Post-Soviet Telecommunications – An Industry Under Reform, Robert W. Campbell, (Westview Press, 1995).
  • Citizens Rising – Independent Journalism and the Spread of Democracy, by David Hoffman, (Prakash Books India, 2014).
  • Voices from Russia – Witnesses to Change, 1970-2000, interviews by John Harrison (John Harrison Publishing, 2021).
  • In From the Cold – The Rise of Russian Capitalism, edited by Peter Westin (London Publishing Partnership, 2012).
  • Comrade Criminal – Russia’s New Mafiya, by Stephen Handelman (Yale University Press, 1995).
  • Spoils of War – A Memoir – A Soldier in the Billionaire’s Battles with the Russian Oligarchs Who Placed Vladimir Putin in Power, by Michael Haywood (Clever Men Publishing LLC, 2023).
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