Steven R. Rosefielde (born 1942) is professor of comparative economic systems at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] He is also a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
Steven Rosefielde | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1942 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Russian, Soviet and Communist studies, comparative economic systems and international security |
| Institutions | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Red Holocaust
editIn Red Holocaust,[2] Rosefielde's main point is that communism in general, although he focuses mostly on Stalinism, is less genocidal, and that is a key distinction from Nazism. According to German historian Jörg Hackmann, the term is not popular among scholars in Germany or internationally.[3] Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine writes that usage of this term "allows the reality it describes to immediately attain, in the Western mind, a status equal to that of the extermination of the Jews by the Nazi regime."[4]: 157 [5]: 64 Michael Shafir writes that the use of the term supports the "competitive martyrdom component of Double Genocide", a theory whose worst version is Holocaust obfuscation.[5]: 64, 74 George Voicu states that Leon Volovici has "rightfully condemned the abusive use of this concept as an attempt to 'usurp' and undermine a symbol specific to the history of European Jews."[6]
Work, reviews and citations
editIn a 2001 study, Rosefielde calculated that there were 3.4 million premature deaths in Russia from 1990 to 1998, partly blaming on the shock therapy that came with the Washington Consensus.[7] Rosefielde's work has been reviewed in peer-reviewed journals. Russia since 1980: Wrestling with Westernization was reviewed by David G. Rowley in History: Reviews of New Books.[8] Red Holocaust was reviewed by Martin Kragh in Scandinavian Economic History Review.[2] As of 2020, "Measuring Enterprise Efficiency in the Soviet Union: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis" has been cited 82 times.[9]
Selected works
edit- Steven Rosefielde; Jonathan Leightner (19 September 2017). China's Market Communism: Challenges, Dilemmas, Solutions. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1138125230.
- Russia since 1980: Wrestling with Westernization, with Stefan Hedlund, Cambridge University Press, 2009
- Red Holocaust, Routledge, 2009
- Economic Welfare and the Economics of Soviet Socialism: Essays in Honor of Abram Bergson, Cambridge University Press, 2008
- The Russian Economy: From Lenin to Putin, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007
- Masters of Illusion: American Leadership In The Media Age, Cambridge University Press, 2006
- Comparative Economic Systems: Culture, Wealth, and Power in the 21st Century, Wiley-Blackwell, 2002, 2005, 2008
- Russia in the 21st Century: The Prodigal Superpower, Cambridge University Press, 2004
- Premature Deaths: Russia's Radical Economic Transition in Soviet Perspective, Europe-Asia Studies (2001). 53 (8): 1159–1176. doi:10.1080/09668130120093174.
- Efficiency and Russia's Economic Recovery Potential to the Year 2000 and Beyond, ed., Ashgate Publishing, 1998
- Documented Homicides and Excess Deaths: New Insights into the Scale of Killing in the USSR during the 1930s Archived 2011-11-13 at the Wayback Machine. (PDF file) Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 321–333. University of California, 1997.
- False Science: Underestimating the Soviet Arms Buildup. An Appraisal of the CIA's Direct Costing Effort, 1960–1985, 1988
- World Communism at the Crossroads: Military Ascendancy, Political Economy, and Human Welfare, 1980
- Soviet International Trade in Heckscher-Ohlin Perspective: An Input-Output Study, 1973
References
edit- ^ "Steven Rosefielde". University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ a b Kragh, Martin (November 2011). "Book Reviews: Red Holocaust". Scandinavian Economic History Review. 59 (3). London, England: Routledge: 312–314. doi:10.1080/03585522.2011.617586. S2CID 219714055.
- ^ Hackmann, Jörg (March 2009). "From National Victims to Transnational Bystanders? The Changing Commemoration of World War II in Central and Eastern Europe". Constellations. 16 (1). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley: 167–181. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8675.2009.00526.x.
- ^ Goslan, Richard Joseph; Rousso, Henry, eds. (2004). Stalinism and Nazism: History and Memory Compared. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-803-29000-6.
- ^ a b Shafir, Michael (Summer 2016). "Ideology, Memory and Religion in Post-Communist East Central Europe: A Comparative Study Focused on Post-Holocaust". Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies. 15 (44). Cluj-Napoca, Romania: Babeș-Bolyai University: 52–110.
- ^ Voicu, George (2018). "Postcommunist Romania's Leading Public Intellectuals and the Holocaust". In Florian, Alexandru (ed.). Holocaust Public Memory in Postcommunist Romania, Studies in Antisemitism. Bloomington, Indianda: Indiana University Press. pp. 41–71. ISBN 978-0-253-03274-4.
- ^ Rosefielde, Steven (2001). "Premature Deaths: Russia's Radical Economic Transition in Soviet Perspective". Europe-Asia Studies. 53 (8). Milton Park, England: Routledge: 1159–1176. doi:10.1080/09668130120093174. JSTOR 826265. S2CID 145733112.
- ^ Rowley, David G. (September 2010). "A Review of 'Russia since 1980: Wrestling with Westernization'". History: Reviews of New Books. 38 (4): 138–139. doi:10.1080/03612759.2010.500213. S2CID 143091300.
- ^ "Steven Rosefielde". Retrieved 13 November 2020 – via Google Scholar.