Paul Roderick Gregory (born 10 February 1941 in
San Angelo
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,
Texas
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) is a professor of economics at the
University of Houston
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, Texas, a
research fellow
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at the
Hoover Institution
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and a research fellow at the
German Institute for Economic Research
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. He has written about Russia and the Soviet Union.
He received his
B. A.
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in 1963 and
M. A.
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in 1964 from
University of Oklahoma
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and his Ph.D. in economics from
Harvard University
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in 1969. Gregory's book
Women of the Gulag
''Women of the Gulag'' is a 2018 US short documentary film directed by Marianna Yarovskaya. and based on the book ''Women of the Gulag: Stories of Five Remarkable Lives'' by Paul Roderick Gregory (2013). Executive Produced by Mitchell Block and Ma ...
inspired an Oscar-shortlisted film of the same name, directed by
Marianna Yarovskaya.
Publications
*''Women of the Gulag: Stories of Five Remarkable Lives'',
Hoover Institution Press
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, 2013
**Histories of five women of diverse geographical, social, and ethnic origins: Agness Argipopulo, Maria Senotrusova, Evgenia Feigenberg, Adile Abbas-ogly, and Fekla Andreeva.
*''Politics, Murder and Love in Stalin's Kremlin: The Story of
Nikolai Bukharin
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and
Anna Larina
Anna Mikhailovna Larina (russian: А́нна Миха́йловна Ла́рина; 27 January 1914 – 24 February 1996) was the third wife of the Bolshevik leader Nikolai Bukharin and spent many years trying to rehabilitate her husband after ...
'',
Hoover Institution Press
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, 2010
* ''Terror by Quota: State Security from Lenin to Stalin'',
Yale University Press
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, Yale Universi ...
, 2009
* (co-editor) "ГУЛАГ: Экономика принудительного труда", Moscow, , 2008.
* ''Lenin’s Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives'',
Hoover Institution Press
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, 2008
* ''The Political Economy of Stalinism'',
Cambridge University Press
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, 2004 (
Ed A Hewett Book Prize
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)
* ''Russian and Soviet Economic Performance and Structure'',
Addison-Wesley
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, 2001, with Robert C. Stuart
* ''Principles of Macroeconomics'',
Addison-Wesley
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, 2001, 7th edition, with Roy J. Ruffin
* ''Before Command: An Economic History of Russia from Emancipation to First Five-years Plan'',
Princeton University Press
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, 1994
* ''Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy'',
Cambridge University Press
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, 1990.
* ''Russian National Income. 1885-1913'',
Cambridge University Press
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, 1982
See also
*
Women of the Gulag
''Women of the Gulag'' is a 2018 US short documentary film directed by Marianna Yarovskaya. and based on the book ''Women of the Gulag: Stories of Five Remarkable Lives'' by Paul Roderick Gregory (2013). Executive Produced by Mitchell Block and Ma ...
References
External links
Paul Gregory's weblogPaul Gregory's weblog at ''Forbes''
Living people
21st-century American economists
Economic historians
University of Oklahoma alumni
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Hoover Institution people
University of Houston faculty
Writers about the Soviet Union
1941 births
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