Thane Gustafson (born 1944) is a professor of
political science at
Georgetown University,
Washington, D.C., United States. He specializes in
comparative politics and the
political history of Russia and the former
USSR.
Life
Gustafson holds degrees in both
political science and
chemistry
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from the
University of Illinois, and a
doctorate from
Harvard University. He is a former professor at Harvard, and a former analyst for
RAND Corporation
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. He is Senior Director of Russian and Caspian Energy for
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(IHS CERA).
Gustafson is the author of ''
Capitalism Russian Style
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'', ''
Crisis amid Plenty: The Politics of Soviet Energy under Brezhnev and Gorbachev'' (which was awarded the
Marshall Shulman
Marshall Darrow Shulman (1916 - June 21, 2007) was an American diplomat, scholar of Soviet studies and the founding director of W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union at Columbia University.
Born in Jersey City, New ...
Book Prize as the best book on Soviet affairs), coauthor (with
Daniel Yergin) of ''
Russia 2010 and What It Means for the World'',
and ''
Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia''.
Served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Côte d'Ivoire From 1966 to 1968 with his wife Ruth Gustafson.
Works
* ''Capitalism Russian-style'' Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
* ''Wheel of fortune : the battle for oil and power in Russia'', Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
* ''Crisis amid plenty.'', Princeton University Press, 2016.
* ''The Bridge'' Harvard University Press, 2020.
* ''Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change''. Harvard University Press, 2021.
References
External links
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Living people
Georgetown University faculty
RAND Corporation people
Harvard University alumni
University of Illinois alumni
1944 births
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