Steven Rosefielde

Template:Short description Steven R. Rosefielde (born 1942) is professor of comparative economic systems at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Template:R/superscript He is also a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

Red Holocaust

In Red Holocaust,Template:R/superscript 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 Template:Ill, the term is not popular among scholars in Germany or internationally.Template:R/superscript 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."Template:R/superscriptTemplate:R/superscript 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.Template:R/superscript 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."Template:R/superscript

Work, reviews and citations

In 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.Template:R/superscript 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.Template:R/superscript Red Holocaust was reviewed by Martin Kragh in Scandinavian Economic History Review.Template:R/superscript As of 2020, "Measuring Enterprise Efficiency in the Soviet Union: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis" has been cited 82 times.Template:R/superscript

Selected works

• 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. .
• 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 . (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