Selected Resources
The Oral History of Americans and other foreigners who participated in the historic dismantling of the Soviet economy by Russian reformers and who contributed to the creation of the Russian market economy in the 1990s.
THE SATINSKY ARCHIVE
Selected Resources
The Oral History of Americans and other foreigners who participated in the historic dismantling of the Soviet economy by Russian reformers and who contributed to the creation of the Russian market economy in the 1990s.
THE SATINSKY ARCHIVE
Other Materials by Daniel Satinsky
Other Materials by Daniel Satinsky

Book presentation at The Russia Program at George Washington University, November 9, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ50VsnzVVw


New Books Network podcast, October 6, 2023. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daniel-satinsky-creating-the-post-soviet-russian/id422306010?i=1000630414338


Foundations of Natural Gas Price Formation: Misunderstandings Jeopardizing the Future of the Industry, Sergei Komlev, author and Daniel Satinsky, editor, Anthem Press, 2020.


Hammer & Silicon: The Soviet Diaspora in the US Innovation Economy, Sheila M. Puffer, Daniel J. McCarthy, Daniel M. Satinsky (Cambridge University Press, 2018) https://www.amazon.com/Hammer-Silicon-Innovation-Immigration-Institutions/dp/1316641260.


“Emerging Innovation in Emerging Economies: Can Institutional Reforms Help Russia Break Through Its Historical Barriers?” Sheila Puffer, Daniel McCarthy, Loren Graham and Daniel Satinsky, Thunderbird International Business Review 2014.


“Yaroslavl Roadmap 10-15-20,” Karin Ezbiansky, Christopher Hayter and Daniel Satinsky, New York Academy of Sciences, 2010.


Buyer’s Guide to the Russian IT Outsourcing Industry, Daniel Satinsky, World Executive, Inc., 2006.


“Industrial Giants, Entrepreneurs, and Regional Government: The Changing Business Environment in Yaroslavl’ Oblast, 1990-1999,” in Regional Russia in Transition: Studies from Yaroslavl’, edited by Jeffrey W. Hahn (John Hopkins University Press, 2001) https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/regional-russia-transition-studies-yaroslavl.

Oral History Archives
Oral History Archives
Blavatnik Archive. https://www.blavatnikarchive.org/.

Harriman Institute Oral History Collection. https://oralhistory.harriman.columbia.edu/background.

Strauss Center, UT Austin: https://www.strausscenter.org/post-soviet-states/

US Russia Relations: Quest for Stability, https://usrussiarelations.org/
Citizen Diplomacy
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).

Spacebridges


Showcase Radiotopia podcast on history of spacebridges, winter 2019: https://www.radiotopia.fm/showcase/spacebridge


Collection of recordings of various US-USSR spacebridge broadcasts: https://www.youtube.com/@Spacebridges


Rama Jyoti Vernon Citizen Diplomacy Archive https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxMNsiGfSIbnYIU7DTfzWVns9qe0jZw_o


Russian side of spacebridges: “ГЛОБАЛЬНЫЙ ТЕАТР» ИОСИФА ГОЛЬДИНА,” (Russian only), https://sazikov.livejournal.com/564.html


Esalen Institute and Counterculture


Esalen Institute: “How a Famed New Age Retreat Center Helped End the Cold War,” by Sarah Laskow (Atlas Obscura, December 8, 2015) (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-a-famed-new-age-retreat-center-helped-end-the-cold-war).


Esalen Institute: “New Age Diplomacy: The Role of the Esalen Institute in Ending the Cold War,” Birgit Menzel, paper presented at ASEEES Convention, San Francisco, CA, November 23, 2019. (https://newageru.hypotheses.org/1903)


3220 Sacramento Street, San Francisco. “How a Converted Auto Shop in San Francisco Became a Hub for Cold War Diplomacy,” Sarah Laskow (Atlas Obscura, February 19, 2016) (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-a-converted-auto-shop-in-san-francisco-became-a-hub-for-cold-war-diplomacy).


Henry S. Dakin memorial, November 14, 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1tvOiiWmpo


Interview with Joel Schatz, founder of San Francisco Moscow Teleport. “Slow Scan to Moscow,” Adam Rothschild, Mother Jones, June 1, 1986 (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1986/06/slow-scan-moscow/).


“These video chats helped thaw out the Cold War,” Shirin Jaafari, The World, November 7, 2014 (https://theworld.org/stories/2014/11/07/how-two-men-brought-people-us-and-soviet-russia-together-over-phone).


History of Russian Internet and American connection, Russian with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdngdbzayHA.


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
Transition to Market Economy
  • Changing Channels – Television and the Struggle for Power in Russia, Ellen Mickiewicz (Oxford University Press, 1997).
  • 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).
  • Citizens Rising – Independent Journalism and the Spread of Democracy, by David Hoffman, (Prakash Books India, 2014).
  • Gaidar’s Revolution – The Inside Account of the Economic Transformation of Russia, by Petr Aven and Alfred Kokh (I.B. Tauris, 2015).
  • Ideology and Meaning-Making under the Putin Regime, Marlene Laruelle (Stanford University Press, 2025).
  • In from the Cold: The Rise of Russian Capitalism, by Peter Westin (London Publishing Partnership, 2012)
  • Into Russia’s Cauldron: An American Vision, Undone, Steven Fisher (Forest Cat Production, 2020).
  • Odyssey Moscow: One American’s Journey from Russia Optimist to Prisoner of the State, Michael Calvey (The History Press, 2025).
  • Russia’s World Order: How Civilizationism Explains the Conflict with the West, Paul Robinson (Northern Illinois University Press, 2025).
  • Soviet and Post-Soviet Telecommunications – An Industry Under Reform, Robert W. Campbell, (Westview 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).
  • Taming the Wild East: New Russian Entrepreneurs Tell Their Stories, Alexander Osipovich (Alpina Business Books, 2004)
  • The Selling of the Soviet Empire – Politics & Economics of Russia’s Privatization – Revelations of the Principal Insider, by Alfred Kokh (Liberty Publishing House, 1998).
  • The Triumph of Broken Promises. The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism, by Fritz Bartel (Harvard University Press, 2022).
  • Voices from Russia – Witnesses to Change, 1970-2000, interviews by John Harrison (John Harrison Publishing, 2021).
  • Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia, Charles Hecker (Oxford University Press, 2025).
Changing Channels – Television and the Struggle for Power in Russia, Ellen Mickiewicz (Oxford University Press, 1997).

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).

Citizens Rising – Independent Journalism and the Spread of Democracy, by David Hoffman, (Prakash Books India, 2014).

Gaidar’s Revolution – The Inside Account of the Economic Transformation of Russia, by Petr Aven and Alfred Kokh (I.B. Tauris, 2015).

Ideology and Meaning-Making under the Putin Regime, Marlene Laruelle (Stanford University Press, 2025).

In from the Cold: The Rise of Russian Capitalism, by Peter Westin (London Publishing Partnership, 2012)

Into Russia’s Cauldron: An American Vision, Undone, Steven Fisher (Forest Cat Production, 2020).

Odyssey Moscow: One American’s Journey from Russia Optimist to Prisoner of the State, Michael Calvey (The History Press, 2025).

Russia’s World Order: How Civilizationism Explains the Conflict with the West, Paul Robinson (Northern Illinois University Press, 2025).

Soviet and Post-Soviet Telecommunications – An Industry Under Reform, Robert W. Campbell, (Westview 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).

Taming the Wild East: New Russian Entrepreneurs Tell Their Stories, Alexander Osipovich (Alpina Business Books, 2004)

The Selling of the Soviet Empire – Politics & Economics of Russia’s Privatization – Revelations of the Principal Insider, by Alfred Kokh (Liberty Publishing House, 1998).

The Triumph of Broken Promises. The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism, by Fritz Bartel (Harvard University Press, 2022).

Voices from Russia – Witnesses to Change, 1970-2000, interviews by John Harrison (John Harrison Publishing, 2021).

Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia, Charles Hecker (Oxford University Press, 2025).