This collection of 10 oral histories features Russian economic reformers and human rights activists, all of whom played leadership roles in the movements that have transformed Russian society over the past 50 years. The collection was developed by the Duke University Program on History, Public Policy and Social Change, under the leadership of Professors Robert Korstad and Robert Conrad, and with essential assistance from the The Gaidar Institute for the Economy in Transition, Moscow, Russia.
The interviews were conducted by Michael Alexeev and Sam Greene, in Russia, in June, 2009.
Production by Sandra Jacobi, Oak Drive Video Productions, LLC.
Transcripts and translations by Elizabeth Ransome Stine.
Ludmilla Alexeyeva
Russian human rights activist and historian
Co-founder and the current Chairperson of the Moscow Helsinki Group
Russian Transcript
Anatoly Chubais
Russian economist, politician, and business manager, one of the architects and the manager of Russia’s mass privatization program in the 1990s
Former Chairman of United Energy System, and current Director of Rusnano, Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies
Russian Transcript
Arkady Dvorkovich
Russian economist
Aide to President Medvedev on economic development and trade
Russian Transcript (Not yet available)
English Translation (Not yet available)
Yegor Gaidar
Russian economist and politician
Director of the Institute for the Economy in Transition, Architect of market reforms in the early 1990s, Former Minister of Economics and Finance, former Deputy Prime Minister and Acting Prime Minister under President Boris Yeltsin
Russian Transcript
Sergei Kovalev
Russian human rights activist and politician
Co-founder of the human rights organization ‘Memorial’
Russian Transcript
Vladimir Mau
Russian political scientist and economist
Rector of the Academy of the National Economy, Moscow, Russia
Interview on iTunes U (Interview is in English)
Sergei Shatalov
Russian economist
Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation
Principal author of the Russian Tax Code
Dmitry Vasiliev
Russian Economist
First Chairman of Russia’s Federal Commission for the Securities Market
Co-founder of the Institute of Corporate Law and Corporate Governance, founding member of Russia’s Investors Protection Association
Russian Transcript (Not yet available)
English Translation (Not yet available)
Yevgeny Yasin
Former Russian Minister for the Economy under Boris Yeltsin
Academic Supervisor at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Russian Transcript
Grigory Yavlinsky
Russian economist and politician, instrumental in the transition of the USSR into a free-market economy
Leader of the Yabloko political party
Russian Transcript
