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
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
  • 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).
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